Product Description

How is one to think 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 each other in a new way. It is a concrete examination of the logic governing the work of a major American artist that is, at the same time, a general philosophical examination of the logic of meaning governing all the major filmic categories and is thus a comprehensive theory of film. "Becoming Visionary" develops a new matrix for thinking the relations between philosophy and film and, by extension, between philosophy and the arts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #550877 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

Review
"This book's analyses of individual films are among the deepest known to me, tireless and surprising to the end, unswervingly following the experience or conviction that film, in its high instances (more numerous than a hasty glance announces), deserves the attention due to, and rewarded by, a great art. If there is such a field in the offing as Film and Philosophy, Peretz's book must form a notable piece of its curriculum." - Stanley Cavell, Harvard University"

About the Author
Eyal Peretz is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power, a Reading of Moby-Dick (Stanford, 2003).