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Book SynopsisBecoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses is an 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—frame, camera movement, editing cut, close-up, and the relations between vision and sound.
Trade Review"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 Philosophy, Peretz's book must form a notable piece of its curriculum."—Stanley Cavell, Harvard University
"Modestly framed as an attempt to lift Brian de Palma from the category of Hitchcock imitator and restore his unique vision, and as a rethinking of the function of the frame in film,
Becoming Visionary opens into a brilliant speculation on cinema itself, on cinema as an apparatus of sensation. A certain mirror paradox—how can what is limited contain the reflection of what is infinitely more vast?—thus defines the method and argument of this stunning, breakaway book. Philosophy and film have never seemed more suited for mutual enlightenment than in Peretz's deft analysis." -- Joan Copjec * SUNY Buffalo *
Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:FOREWORD: On Eyal Peretz's Becoming Visionary BY STANLEY CAVELL 000 @toc2:INTRODUCTION: THE REALM OF THE SENSES AND THE VISION OF THE BEYOND--TOWARD A NEW THINKING OF THE IMAGE 000 CHAPTER ONE: CARRIE--FILM AND THE WOUNDING OF REPRESENTATION 000 CHAPTER TWO: BETWEEN PARANOIA AND PASSION--QUESTIONING THE FRAME AND THE SCREEN IN THE FURY 000 CHAPTER THREE: FILM AND THE MEMORY OF THE OUTSIDE: OR, CINEMA AS TECHNOLOGY, CINEMA AS PORNOGRAPHY, CINEMA AS SCREAM--BLOW OUT 000 CODA: FOR A NEW ENLIGHTENMENT: FEMME FATALE, A PARADOXICAL HAPPY ENDING; OR, THE IDEA OF A FUTURE 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Index 000
