Plotinus and the Moving Image

ISBN-13: 9789004357037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 264 str.

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein; Giannis Stamatellos

Opis

Plotinus and the Moving Image offers the first philosophical discussion on Plotinus' philosophy and film. It discusses Plotinian concepts like "the One" and "the intelligible" in a cinematic context, relates Plotinus' theory of time to the modern time-image, and finds Neoplatonic contemplation in Contemplative Cinema.

Recenzje

"Plotinus and the Moving Image is not simply the first philosophical discussion on Plotinus' philosophy and film theory but rather a true Plotinian attempt to philosophize about cinema." - Gabriel Martino, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, in: The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 13 (2019), 87-123

Spis treści

Note on the Cover Illustration
Preface
  Nathan Andersen
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
  Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Giannis Stamatellos

1 "Cut Away Excess and Straighten the Crooked:" The Simplicity of Contemplative Cinema in the Light of Plotinus' Philosophy
  Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

2 The One in Photogénie : Plotinus and Jean Epstein
  Steve Choe

3 Is the Universe a Work of Art that We Can Perceive in a Film?
  Tony Partridge

4 Heracles, Hylas, and the Uses of Reflection
  Stephen R.L. Clark

5 Beyond the Moving Images: A Plotinian Reading of The Truman Show
  Giannis Stamatellos

6 Being as Illumination of the One and Its Manifestation through Cinematic Images
  Sebastian F. Moro Tornese

7 Moving Image and Conversion: A Neo-Platonic Film Theory
  Vincenzo Lomuscio

8 Character, Spectator, Film: On Cinema as a Plotinian Hierarchy
  Enrico Terrone

9 Plotinus and Tarkovsky on Experience and the Transparency of Reality
  Daniel Regnier

10 Images of a Moving Self: Plotinus and Bruce Nauman
  Panayiota Vassilopoulou

11 Avoiding the "Dead Thing Decorated." Neoplatonism and Daniel Martin : Towards a Poetics of Film?
  Michelle Phillips Buchberger

12 The Mystical and the Beautiful: The Construction of a Plotinian Aesthetics of Film
  Cameron Barrows

Filmography
Index

O autorze

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (1993) Oxford University is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait. He has published 11 authored books, 5 edited books, and 120 articles in peer reviewed journals. His most recent volume was Transcultural Architecture: Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015). Giannis Stamatellos (2005) University of Wales Trinity Saint David in 2005. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen from 2010 to 2012. He has published 4 authored books as well as various articles and translations in the areas of philosophy and classics including Plotinus and the Presocratics: A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus' Enneads (SUNY, 2008).