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Book SynopsisPlotinus 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’s and Deleuze’s time-image. Film is a unique medium for a rapprochement of our modern consciousness with the thought of Plotinus. The Neoplatonic vestige is particularly worth exploring in the context of the newly emerging “Cinema of Contemplation.” Plotinus' search for the "intelligible" that can be grasped neither by sense perception nor by merely logical abstractions leads to a fluent way of seeing. Parallels that had so far never been discussed are made plausible. This book is a milestone in the philosophy of film. Contributors are: Cameron Barrows, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Michelle Phillips Buchberger, Steve Choe, Stephen Clark, Vincenzo Lomuscio, Tony Partridge, Daniel Regnier, Giannis Stamatellos, Enrico Terrone, Sebastian F. Moro Tornese and Panayiota Vassilopoulou.
Trade Review"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
Table of ContentsNote 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
