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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySophie Fiennes
Written bySlavoj Žižek
Produced bySophie Fiennes
Georg Misch
Martin Rosenbaum
Ralph Wieser
StarringSlavoj Žižek
CinematographyRemko Schnorr
Edited bySophie Fiennes
Marek Kralovsky
Ethel Shepherd
Music byBrian Eno
Production
companies
Mischief Films
Amoeba Film
Distributed byP Guide Ltd.
ICA Projects (UK)
Release dates
  • 17 June 2006 (2006-06-17) (Sydney Film Festival)
  • 16 January 2009 (2009-01-16) (United States)
Running time
150 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Austria
Netherlands
LanguageEnglish

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema is a 2006 documentary directed and produced by Sophie Fiennes, scripted and presented by Slavoj Žižek. It explores a number of films from a psychoanalytic theoretical perspective.

Fiennes and Žižek released a follow-up, The Pervert's Guide to Ideology on 15 November 2012.[1] The format is similar, with Žižek speaking from within reconstructed scenes from films.[2]

List of films discussed

Reception

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema holds an 88% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with a consensus of, "Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek forgoes the textbook stuff for a fun, probing look at cinema and the human emotional response to it."[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Anne Thompson Archived 2012-07-09 at archive.today, "Pervert’s Guide to Cinema’s Fiennes and Zizek Reteam for Pervert’s Guide to Ideology," on 14 October 2011. Indiewire
  2. ^ Leigh, Danny (16 October 2011). "Slavoj Žižek: Blofeld rides again". The Guardian.
  3. ^ "The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 6 January 2017.

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