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The Pervert's Guide Collection

Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek analyzes several of the most important films in the history of cinema to explain how cinematic narrative can help to understand the complicated human psyche — personal subjectivity, fantasy and reality, desire and sexuality — but also to reinforce prevailing ethics and political ideas.

2 movies 2006 – 2012 4h 42m total 6 snapshots 292 solvers
Directed by Sophie Fiennes

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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's most exciting ideas on personal subjectivity, fantasy and reality, desire and sexuality.

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

Director Sophie Fiennes reunites with philosophical provocateur Slavoj Žižek for this follow-up to their hit The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, in which Žižek applies his inimitable and penetrating insights to films both famous and obscure as he interprets their overt and concealed meanings. (TIFF)

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