The Pervert’s Guide To Ideology

 

November 14, 20138:30pm

British documentary film directed by Sophie Fiennes and written and presented by Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist Slavoj Žižek. It is a sequel to Fiennes’s 2006 documentary The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema. Though the film follows the frameworks of its predecessor, this time the emphasis is on ideology itself. Through psychoanalysis Žižek 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.

Žižek 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.


Film Information
Release year: 2012
Running time:   136 mins
Directed by: Sophie Fiennes
Language: English
Country: UK
Classification:
Genre: Documentary
Starring: Slavoj Žižek

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