Beschreibung:
Nathan Andersen teaches philosophy and film at Eckerd College, USA. He programs an award-winning cinema series in Tampa Bay, Florida, and is the co-director of the "Visions of Nature/Voices of Nature," Environmental Film Festival. He has published articles on the history of philosophy, environmental philosophy, and film.
Shadow Philosophy: Plato's Cave and A Clockwork Orange is a fine example of film-philosophy, offering something new to the discipline as well as being immediately useful to students. Nathan Andersen brings Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange into philosophical conversation with Plato's Republic, providing a novel approach to the analogy between Plato's allegory of the cave and cinema that shows to take film seriously is also to engage with the fundamental questions of philosophy.
Introduction: What We See on Screen 1. Making Sense of Motion Pictures: On Faces and Frames in Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange 2. Plato's Cave and Cinema 3. Feeling and Image: The Ludovico Technique 4. Plato's Critique of Poetry and the Peril and Promise of Cinema 5. Justice and Freedom: Alex's Cure Conclusion: Shadow Philosophy Suggested films Suggested readings Glossary of Artists and Thinkers, Terms and Concepts Appendix: Summary of Plato's Republic, book by book. Index