Shadow Philosophy: Plato's Cave and Cinema

<p><em>Shadow Philosophy: Plato's Cave and A Clockwork Orange</em> 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 <i>Republic</i> 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.</p>