Becoming visionary : Brian De Palma's cinematic education of the senses / Eyal Peretz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peretz, Eyal, 1968-

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

De Palma, Brian--Criticism and interpretation.

De Palma, Brian.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xvii, 224 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2008]

Summary:

How is one to think about the significance of the art of film for philosophy? What would it mean to introduce film as a question into the heart of the philosophical enterprise? How would this transform our understanding of film, on the one hand, and of philosophy and the philosophical tradition, on the other? These are the questions that guide this project on the hitherto critically neglected but seminal film director Brian De Palma.

Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses is located at the intersection of philosophy and film studies, and makes each of these disciplines productive and useful for the other in a new way. It is a concrete examination of the logic governing the work of a major American artist and, at the same time, a general philosophical examination of the logic of meaning governing all the major filmic categories, thus providing a comprehensive theory of film. Becoming Visionary develops a new matrix for thinking about the relationship between philosophy and film and, by extension, between philosophy and the arts.

Contents:

Foreword: On Eyal Peretz's Becoming Visionary / Stanley Cavell xi

Introduction: The Realm of the Senses and the Vision of the Beyond-Toward a New Thinking of the Image 1

1 Carrie-Film and the Wounding of Representation 23

2 Between Paranoia and Passion-Questioning the Frame and the Screen in The Fury 47

3 Film and the Memory of the Outside: Or, Cinema as Technology, Cinema as Pornography, Cinema as Scream-Blow Out 83

Coda: For a New Enlightenment: Femme Fatale, A Paradoxical Happy Ending; or, The Idea of a Future 157.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-220) and index.

ISBN:

9780804756846

0804756848

9780804756853

0804756856

OCLC:

124166384