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6%OFFEyal Peretz - Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma’s Cinematic Education of the Senses - 9780804756853 - V9780804756853
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Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma’s Cinematic Education of the Senses

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Description for Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma’s Cinematic Education of the Senses Paperback. 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? This book develops a matrix for thinking the relations between philosophy and film and, by extension, between philosophy and the arts. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 330. Weight in Grams: 340.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804756853
SKU
V9780804756853
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About Eyal Peretz
Eyal Peretz is Associate Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power: A Reading of 'Moby-Dick' (2002).

Reviews for Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma’s Cinematic Education of the Senses
"This book's analysis 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, rewarded by, a great art. If there is such a field in the offing as Film and ... Read more

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