Plotinus and the moving image / / edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Giannis Stamatellos.

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book Series. Philosophy of Film, Volume 310
• TeilnehmendeR: Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten,; Stamatellos, Giannis,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series ; Volume 310.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction /; “Cut Away Excess and Straighten the Crooked:” The Simplicity of Contemplative Cinema in the Light of Plotinus’ Philosophy /; The One in Photogénie: Plotinus and Jean Epstein /; Is the Universe a Work of Art that We Can Perceive in a Film? /; Heracles, Hylas, and the Uses of Reflection /; Beyond the Moving Images: A Plotinian Reading of The Truman Show /; Being as Illumination of the One and Its Manifestation through Cinematic Images /; Moving Image and Conversion: A Neoplatonic Film Theory /; Character, Spectator, Film: On Cinema as a Plotinian Hierarchy /; Plotinus and Tarkovsky on Experience and the Transparency of Reality /; Images of a Moving Self: Plotinus and Bruce Nauman /; Avoiding the “Dead Thing Decorated.” Neoplatonism and Daniel Martin: Towards a Poetics of Film? /; The Mystical and the Beautiful: The Construction of a Plotinian Aesthetics of Film /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters, filmography and index.
• ISBN: 9004357165
• ISSN: 0929-8436
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Giannis Stamatellos.

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’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.