Plato and the Moving Image.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (276 pages)
- Value Inquiry Book Series ; v.332 .
- Value Inquiry Book Series .
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.