The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Sophie Fiennes
Produced by Sophie Fiennes
Georg Misch
Martin Rosenbaum
Ralph Wieser
Written by Slavoj Žižek
Starring Slavoj Žižek
Music by Brian Eno
Cinematography Remko Schnorr
Edited by Sophie Fiennes
Marek Kralovsky
Ethel Shepherd
Production
company
Mischief Films
Amoeba Film
Distributed by P Guide Ltd.
ICA Projects (UK)
Release date
  • June 17, 2006 (2006-06-17) (Sydney Film Festival)
  • January 16, 2009 (2009-01-16) (United States)
Running time
 150 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Austria
Netherlands
Language English

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 November 15, 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, "Pervert’s Guide to Cinema’s Fiennes and Zizek Reteam for Pervert’s Guide to Ideology," on October 14, 2011. Indiewire
  2. ↑ Leigh, Danny (October 16, 2011). "Slavoj Žižek: Blofeld rides again". The Guardian'.
  3. ↑ "The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
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