TY - BOOK AU - Biderman,Shai AU - Weinman,Michael TI - Plato and the Moving Image T2 - Value Inquiry Book Series SN - 9789004398290 AV - PN1995 .P538 2019 U1 - 791.4301 PY - 2019/// CY - Boston PB - BRILL KW - Plato-Influence KW - Motion pictures-Philosophy KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5842546 ER -