Plato and the moving image / edited by Shai Biderman, Michael Weinman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biderman, Shai, editor of compilation.

Weinman, Michael, editor of compilation.

Series:

Value Inquiry Book Series 332.

Value inquiry book series ; 332

Philosophy of film

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Plato--Influence.

Plato.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.

Summary:

This book 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, conversely, why Plato studies stands to benefit from a consideration of recent debates in the philosophy of film. Contributions range from a reading of Phaedo as a ghost story to thinking about climate change documentaries through Plato’s account of pleonexia . They suggest how philosophical aesthetics can be reoriented by attending anew to Plato’s deployment of images, particularly images that move. They also show how Plato’s deployment of images is integral to his practice as a literary artist. Contributors are Shai Biderman, David Calhoun, Michael Forest, Jorge Tomas Garcia, Abraham Jacob Greenstine, Paul A. Kottman, Danielle A. Layne, David McNeill, Erik W. Schmidt, Timothy Secret, Adrian Switzer, and Michael Weinman.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction / Shai Biderman and Michael Weinman

From Plato to the Moving Image: Reorienting Film-Philosophy

Accounting for Images in the Sophist / Abraham Jacob Greenstine

Pseudos, Kalos and Eikōs Mythos in Plato and Film / Danielle A. Layne and Erik W. Schmidt

Dead Ringers: Plato and Turning the Camera Back / Timothy Secret

The Cinematic Image as Platonic Simulacrum / Jorge Tomas Garcia

The Myth of Er as Rationalizing Recording Device / Michael Weinman

From the Moving Image to Plato: Reorienting Plato Studies

Learning to Notice: Light and Shadow, from Chauvet Cave to Plato’s Cave and Beyond / Paul A. Kottman

Phaedo: a Ghost Story / David N. McNeill

Fascism Re-performed: Benjaminian Mimesis, Platonic Methexis and Bertolucci’s The Conformist / Adrian Switzer

Entranced by the Spectacle of Truth: Wonder and Ascent in Plato and Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups and To the Wonder / David H. Calhoun

Plato, Pleonexia and Environmental Documentaries / Michael Forest

Truth, Reality and Fiction in the Documentary of Errol Morris: Refiguring ‘Platonism’ in Epistemology and Aesthetics / Shai Biderman

Back Matter

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-39829-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004398290 DOI