Plotinus and the moving image /

Plotinus and the Moving Image offers the first philosophical discussion on Plotinus' philosophy and film. It discusses Plotinian concepts like \'the One\' in a cinematic context and relates Plotinus' theory of time as a transitory intelligible movement of the soul to Bergson'...

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Main Author: Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, 2018.

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 310.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004328082.

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Call Number: B693.Z7

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction /
  • Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Giannis Stamatellos
  • "Cut Away Excess and Straighten the Crooked:" The Simplicity of Contemplative Cinema in the Light of Plotinus' Philosophy /
  • Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
  • The One in Photogénie: Plotinus and Jean Epstein /
  • Steve Choe
  • Is the Universe a Work of Art that We Can Perceive in a Film? /
  • Tony Partridge
  • Heracles, Hylas, and the Uses of Reflection /
  • Stephen R.L. Clark
  • Beyond the Moving Images: A Plotinian Reading of The Truman Show /
  • Giannis Stamatellos
  • Being as Illumination of the One and Its Manifestation through Cinematic Images /
  • Sebastian F. Moro Tornese
  • Moving Image and Conversion: A Neoplatonic Film Theory /
  • Vincenzo Lomuscio
  • Character, Spectator, Film: On Cinema as a Plotinian Hierarchy /
  • Enrico Terrone
  • Plotinus and Tarkovsky on Experience and the Transparency of Reality /
  • Daniel Regnier
  • Images of a Moving Self: Plotinus and Bruce Nauman /
  • Panayiota Vassilopoulou
  • Avoiding the "Dead Thing Decorated." Neoplatonism and Daniel Martin: Towards a Poetics of Film? /
  • Michelle Phillips Buchberger
  • The Mystical and the Beautiful: The Construction of a Plotinian Aesthetics of Film /
  • Cameron Barrows.