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- Title
The Cinematic Image as Platonic Simulacrum.
- Authors
Garcia, Jorge Tomas
- Abstract
The present chapter proposes an ontological and aesthetic analysis of the film image highlighting its power as a simulacrum. To carry out this analysis, the text considers three different positions: the Platonic, the Bergsonian and the Deleuzian. The Platonic discussion is based on the difference between the model, the copy and the simulacrum. According to Plato, simulacra superficially represent their resemblance to the model. Henri Bergson develops an ontological study of the material world and the moving images that compose it. Bergson makes a classification of the arts taking into account his approach to movement. In relation to Platonism, it can be said that Bergson considers cinema as a simulacrum or an inappropriate representation of reality. Finally, for Gilles Deleuze, the cinema reproduces the image-movement and produces the time-image, which enhance the image-cinema, since they generate a new affective experience within the scope of the Virtual. This power leads to reevaluate the importance of simulation within the arts and therefore the Platonic hierarchies.
- Subjects
AESTHETICS; PLATONISTS; VIRTUAL design; MOTION pictures; ARTS
- Publication
Value Inquiry Book Series, 2019, Vol 332, p79
- ISSN
0929-8436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/9789004398290_006