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Plato and the Moving Image.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Value Inquiry Book SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (276 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004398290
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Plato and the Moving ImageDDC classification:
  • 791.4301
LOC classification:
  • PN1995 .P538 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Plato and the Moving Image -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: From Plato to the Moving Image: Reorienting Film-Philosophy -- 1 Accounting for Images in the Sophist -- 2 Pseudos, Kalos and Eikos Mythos in Plato and Film -- 3 Dead Ringers: Plato and Turning the Camera Back -- 4 The Cinematic Image as Platonic Simulacrum -- 5 The Myth of Er as Rationalizing Recording Device -- Part 2: From the Moving Image to Plato: Reorienting Plato Studies -- 6 Learning to Notice: Light and Shadow, from Chauvet Cave to Plato's Cave and Beyond -- 7 Phaedo: a Ghost Story -- 8 Fascism Re-performed: Benjaminian Mimesis, Platonic Methexis and Bertolucci's The Conformist -- 9 Entranced by the Spectacle of Truth: Wonder and Ascent in Plato and Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups and To the Wonder -- 10 Plato, Pleonexia and Environmental Documentaries -- 11 Truth, Reality and Fiction in the Documentary of Errol Morris: Refiguring 'Platonism' in Epistemology and Aesthetics -- Index.
Summary: Plato and the Moving Image shows how and why debates in the philosophy of film can be advanced through the study of the role of images in Plato's dialogues, and vice versa.
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Intro -- Plato and the Moving Image -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: From Plato to the Moving Image: Reorienting Film-Philosophy -- 1 Accounting for Images in the Sophist -- 2 Pseudos, Kalos and Eikos Mythos in Plato and Film -- 3 Dead Ringers: Plato and Turning the Camera Back -- 4 The Cinematic Image as Platonic Simulacrum -- 5 The Myth of Er as Rationalizing Recording Device -- Part 2: From the Moving Image to Plato: Reorienting Plato Studies -- 6 Learning to Notice: Light and Shadow, from Chauvet Cave to Plato's Cave and Beyond -- 7 Phaedo: a Ghost Story -- 8 Fascism Re-performed: Benjaminian Mimesis, Platonic Methexis and Bertolucci's The Conformist -- 9 Entranced by the Spectacle of Truth: Wonder and Ascent in Plato and Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups and To the Wonder -- 10 Plato, Pleonexia and Environmental Documentaries -- 11 Truth, Reality and Fiction in the Documentary of Errol Morris: Refiguring 'Platonism' in Epistemology and Aesthetics -- Index.

Plato and the Moving Image shows how and why debates in the philosophy of film can be advanced through the study of the role of images in Plato's dialogues, and vice versa.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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