Philosophical Perspective on Cinema

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Pedro Blas González is professor of philosophy at Barry University.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Pedro Blas Gonzalez, Pedro Blas González
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781666906226
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-622-6
• Seiten: 190
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Serie: Politics, Literature, & Film
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Films, cinema, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Politics and government, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General