Split Field Diopter: possibilities of generating tensivity in the filmography of filmmaker Brian De Palma during the 1980s in the Suspense Thriller genre.
Film stylistics. Movie theater. Art and communication. Aesthetic experience. Visual culture.
Low researched in the field of film and academia nowadays, the Split Field Diopter technique points out multiple possibilities for creating simultaneous narratives from the fusion of opposite poles of the screen in an illusory perception of a high depth of field. The present work aims to research, identify and analyze the application of the Split Field Diopter as a tensivity generator instrument (ZILBERBERG, 2011) from the films included in the Suspense Thriller genre (DERRY, 1988) made by Brian De Palma in the 1980s. For this, it is necessary to go through a bibliographical trajectory that crosses the historical and technological passage of the apparatus until the 1980s and the reverberations of the Hitchcockian aesthetic in De Palma ́s Suspense Thriller genre. Recognizing Brian De Palma's stylistic and aesthetic contribution on the use of the apparatus, the dissertation launches an investigation into the tensive use of the Split Field Diopter in the films Dressed to Kill (1980), Blow Out (1981) and Body Double (1980). 1984), based on the semiotic model of analysis of tensivity identified in authors such as Pietroforte (2021) in the plastic and narrative scope. It is expected that this approach can serve as a reference for those interested in the subject discussed, in addition to being useful in the
compilation of books and articles on the subject.