The Pervert's Guide to Ideology | |
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Directed by | Sophie Fiennes |
Written by | Slavoj Žižek |
Produced by | Sophie Fiennes Katie Holly Martin Rosenbaum James Wilson |
Starring | Slavoj Žižek |
Cinematography | Remko Schnorr |
Edited by | Ethel Shepherd |
Music by | Magnus Fiennes |
Distributed by | P Guide Productions Zeitgeist Films |
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Running time | 136 minutes[1] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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.[2] 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."[3] Among the films explored are Full Metal Jacket and Taxi Driver.[4] The film was released in the United States by Zeitgeist Films in November 2013.[5]