Philosophical Perspective on Cinema addresses the relationship between human existence and sensual reality. Applying metaphysical/existential reflection to cinema, the author explores the philosophical clarity that cinema can offer reflective persons about the human experience.

The main premise of Philosophical Perspective on Cinema is simple: Can a visual medium such as cinema put in greater perspective diverse aspects of human experience? Films are usually sorted by genres, but by applying metaphysical/existential categories to cinema, the author enables readers to reflect on the nature and essence of existence by making life appear less transparent to itself. Undoubtedly, the connection between sensual reality and philosophical reflection is often glossed over when the emphasis is placed on theoretical abstractions, and not life itself. While this work is a reflection on the philosophy of existence, the author embraces a practical approach to the metaphysical/existential foundation of human existence.

Introduction: Metaphysical/Existential Reflection Seeking Qualitative Essences in Cinema

Chapter 1: 2001: An Existential Odyssey

Chapter 2: Andrei Tarkovsky: Truth Endorsed by Life

Chapter 3: Fahrenheit 451: A Brave New World for the New Man

Chapter 4: Citizen Kane: Biography and the Unfinished Sentence

Chapter 5: Treasure of the Sierra Madre, or Socrates in the Desert

Chapter 6: Jean Pierre Melville: Encounters with Conscience

Chapter 7: Seven Thieves: Making the World Gasp

Chapter 8: Curse of the Demon: Of Evil, Myth and Reason

Chapter 9: The Uninvited and Dead of Night: The Ominous Other

Chapter 10: Jacques Tati: Last Bastion of Innocence in Modernity

Conclusion