The Perverts Guide to Ideology
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Duration Country United Kingdom | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Documentary Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Slavoj Zizek Writer Slavoj Zizek (screenplay) Initial release November 15, 2012 (Greece) Film series The Perverts Guide to Cinema Film Series Similar movies The Perverts Guide to Ideology and The Perverts Guide to Cinema are part of the same movie series |
The pervert s guide to ideology trailer new release 2013
Slavoj Zizek discusses his ideas on fantasy, reality, sexuality, subjectivity, desire, materiality and cinematic form.
Contents
- The pervert s guide to ideology trailer new release 2013
- Slavoj i ek the pervert s guide to ideology they live subtitulado
- Synopsis
- List of films discussed in this documentary
- Awards
- Similar Movies
- Reception
- References

The Perverts Guide to Ideology is a 2012 British documentary film directed by Sophie Fiennes and written and presented by Slovene philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek. It is a sequel to Fienness 2006 documentary The Perverts Guide to Cinema. Though the film follows the frameworks of its predecessor, this time the emphasis is on ideology itself. Through psychoanalysis Zizek explores "the mechanisms that shape what we believe and how we behave". Among the films that are explored are Full Metal Jacket and Taxi Driver. The film was released in the United States by Zeitgeist Films in November 2013.

Director Sophie Fiennes reunites with philosophical provocateur Slavoj Žižek for this follow-up to their hit The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, in which Žižek applies his inimitable and penetrating insights to films both famous and obscure as he interprets their overt and concealed meanings. (TIFF)
Slavoj i ek the pervert s guide to ideology they live subtitulado
Synopsis
Zizek appears transplanted into the scenes of various movies, exploring and exposing how they reinforce prevailing ideologies. As the ideologies undergirding cinematic fantasies are revealed, striking associations emerge: from nuns advising following your desires at The Sound of Music to the political dimensions of Jaws. Taxi Driver, Zabriskie Point, The Searchers, The Dark Knight, John Carpenter’s They Live (“one of the forgotten masterpieces of the Hollywood Left�), Titanic, Kinder Surprise eggs, verite news footage, the emptiness of Beethoven’s "Ode to Joy", and propaganda epics from Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia all inform Zizek’s psychoanalytic-cinematic argument.
List of films discussed in this documentary
Also included is some news footage of the September 11 attacks, 2011 Norway attacks, and 2011 England riots.
Awards
Similar Movies
The Perverts Guide to Ideology and The Perverts Guide to Cinema are part of the same movie series. Slavoj Zizek wrote the screenplay for The Perverts Guide to Ideology and appears in The Reality of the Virtual. Zizek! (2005). Marx Reloaded (2011). Examined Life (2008).
Reception
"Though its ideas are indeed heady and high-flown, they are presented in a way thats consistently engaging and accessible. And the bearded, bulky, Slovenia-born Zizek comes across as a born raconteur and explainer, the kind of professor whose courses are deservedly his departments most popular. You dont have to share his materialist philosophy to find his analyses of culture and movies witty, insightful and usefully thought-provoking." —Godfrey Cheshire, RogerEbert.com
"What remains? You will get a lot of answers to questions you never knew you had." —Anne-Katrin Titze, Eye for Film
"Intellectual rock star Slavoj Zizek dishes out another action-packed lesson in film history and Marxist dialectics with The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, a riveting and often hilarious demonstration of the Slovenian philosopher’s uncanny ability to turn movies inside out and accepted notions on their head." —Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
"Zizek’s romp through pop culture feels like a strange dream, with a mad professor re-enacting our favourite movie moments through the eyes of a therapist. The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology is invigorating, zany, completely memorable and often hilarious. Zizek goes from praising Coca-Cola to analyzing what the shark attacks really mean in Jaws." —Matthew Hays, Rover Arts Review
Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 91% based on reviews from 22 critics.
References
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