The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)

Directed by

Sophie Fiennes

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

2h 11m

Rated

R

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 150 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Slavoj Žižek uses examples from movies to explain how ideology shapes what people believe and how they behave. He draws on psychoanalysis to break down popular films like Full Metal Jacket and Taxi Driver.

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What happens

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology is a 2012 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 film's emphasis is on ideology itself. Through psychoanalysis Žižek explores "the mechanisms that shape what we believe and how we behave." Among the films explored are Full Metal Jacket and Taxi Driver. The film was released in the United States by Zeitgeist Films in November 2013. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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