The Pervert's Guide to Cinema explained

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Director:	Sophie Fiennes
Producer:	Sophie Fiennes Georg Misch Martin Rosenbaum Ralph Wieser
Starring:	Slavoj Žižek
Music:	Brian Eno
Cinematography:	Remko Schnorr
Editing:	Sophie Fiennes Marek Kralovsky Ethel Shepherd
Studio:	Mischief Films Amoeba Film
Distributor:	P Guide Ltd. ICA Projects
Runtime:	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, and 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] with a similar format; Žižek speaks from within reconstructed scenes from films.^[2]

List of films discussed

• Possessed (1931)
• Monkey Business (1931)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• City Lights (1931)
• Duck Soup (1933)
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
• Pluto's Judgement Day (1935)
• The Wizard of Oz (1939)
• The Great Dictator (1940)
• Saboteur (1942)
• Dead of Night (1945)
• The Red Shoes (1948)
• Kubanskie Kazaki (1949)
• Alice in Wonderland (1951)
• Rear Window (1954)
• To Catch a Thief (1955)
• The Ten Commandments (1956)
• Vertigo (1958)
• Ivan the Terrible: Part II (1958)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• Psycho (1960)
• The Birds (1963)
• (1964)
• Seconds (1966)
• Persona (1966)
• Solaris (1972)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• The Conversation (1974)
• Alien (1979)
• Stalker (1979)
• Dune (1984)
• Blue Velvet (1986)
• Wild at Heart (1990)
• (1993)
• Lost Highway (1997)
• (1997)
• The Matrix (1999)
• Fight Club (1999)
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
• Mulholland Drive (2001)
• The Piano Teacher (2001)
• In the Cut (2003)
• Dogville (2003)
• (2005)

Reception

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema holds an 87% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on reviews from 23 critics.^[3]

See also

• Examined Life
• Jacques Lacan
• Marx Reloaded
• Liebe Dein Symptom wie Dich selbst!
• The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
• The Reality of the Virtual
• Žižek!

External links

• • • Complete transcript of the first part with added commentary and stills.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pervert's Guide to Cinema's Fiennes and Zizek Reteam for Pervert's Guide to Ideology. Savage. Sophia. 14 October 2011. IndieWire. https://web.archive.org/web/20140227061902/http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/perverts_guide_to_cinemas_fiennes_and_zizek_reteam_for_perverts_guide_to_id. 27 February 2014. dead. 6 August 2021.
2. Web site: Slavoj Žižek: Blofeld rides again. Leigh. Danny. 16 October 2011. The Guardian. https://web.archive.org/web/20210310194705/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/oct/16/slavoj-zizek-perverts-guide-ideology. 10 March 2021. live. 6 August 2021.
3. Web site: The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006). Rotten Tomatoes. https://web.archive.org/web/20210205221444/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_perverts_guide_to_cinema. 5 February 2021. live. 6 January 2017.