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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

  • 2012
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  • 2h 16m
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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)
Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj Žižek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes (The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema) for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, Žižek literally goes inside some truly epochal movies, all the better to explore and expose how they reinforce prevailing ideologies. As the ideology that undergirds our cinematic fantasies is revealed, striking associations emerge: What hidden Catholic teachings lurk at the heart of The Sound of Music? What are the fascist 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 Eggs, verité news footage, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” and propaganda epics from Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia all inform Žižek’s stimulating, provocative and often hilarious psychoanalytic-cinematic rant.
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Philosopher Slavoj Zizek examines the hidden themes and existential questions asked by world renowned films.Philosopher Slavoj Zizek examines the hidden themes and existential questions asked by world renowned films.Philosopher Slavoj Zizek examines the hidden themes and existential questions asked by world renowned films.

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    • Director
      • Sophie Fiennes
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      • Slavoj Zizek
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      • Slavoj Zizek
    • 15User reviews
    • 55Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 nominations

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    • Trivia
      When Zizek is talking about John Carpenter's movie "They Live", he says that John Nada's best friend's name is John Armitage. However in the film his name is Frank Armitage.
    • Quotes

      Slavoj Zizek: I'm maybe freezing to death, but you will not get rid of me; all the ices in the world cannot kill a true idea.

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      Features The Triumph of the Will (1935)
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      Symphony No.9 in D Minor
      Performed by Leonard Bernstein

      with the Wiener Philharmoniker

      Written by: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon GmbH

      Under license from Universal Music Operations Ltd

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    A thinker with an odd, Barthesian insight
    The accent is brave, hardly penetrable. Captions are really necessary. But the title of the movie says it all: it IS Slovenian humor at an abstract, high-brow level. The host mitigates the Freudian legacy as he perverts - in a decreasing order - (1) Marx (2) Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School at large (3) Lacan. His universalizing framework comes from Lacanian psychoanalysis, although he is as 'revealing' as Lacan. The greatest apparent influence on Zizek seems to be that of Roland Barthes's 'Mythologies'. As if he were kinda Roland The Hip Semiologist, Zizek analyzes everything from the perspective of the 'myth,' revealing at every opportunity a new approach, criticizing our surrounding, culturally globalized habitat, and insinuating what might be its intrinsic authenticity. The film is essentially an illustrated conference in the style of other mass culture analysts such as Jacob Bronowski, John Berger, Robert Hughes, Kenneth Clark. Zizek is not interested in the respective ideology of the filmmakers he quotes. He uses fragments of films as illustrative of real life processes and their 'myths', not specifically Nazism or Communism, but rather the way we all shape our lives and the universal themes that connect our 'mythological' subconscious needs.
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    • Release date
      • November 1, 2013 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • Ireland
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Pervert's Guide
    • Filming locations
      • Death Valley, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • P Guide Productions
      • Blinder Films
      • British Film Institute (BFI)
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $67,966
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $9,165
      • Nov 3, 2013
    • Gross worldwide
      • $214,313
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      2 hours 16 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
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      • Dolby Digital

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