The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

Name: The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Genre: Documentary
Released: November 1, 2013
Duration: 136 min
Rating: 71

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Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: November 1, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj Žižek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes (The Pervert's Guide to Cinema).

Director: Sophie Fiennes

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 136 min

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IndieWire David D'Arcy

Jul 31, 2013

Fiennes wisely stays out of his way here. Zizek is the star, edited down to digestible elements, with archival footage used adroitly to drive his arguments home. Read full review

Zachary Wigon

Oct 29, 2013

In essence, the film is a lecture, but Zizek's associative thinking and understanding of the applicability of psychoanalysis makes it a lecture like no other. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Oct 29, 2013

Slavoj Žižek manages to explain some of Lacanian psychoanalysis's most inscrutable notions with disarming clarity and infectious urgency. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Nov 1, 2013

To keep this one-man show visually engaging, director Sophie Fiennes places the professor in sets and costumes from the movies, talking about “Full Metal Jacket” from atop a barracks toilet and “Brief Encounter” from a 1940s British train. Read full review

Ty Burr

Nov 14, 2013

The final questions in Pervert’s Guide to Ideology nag at us, and in a culture so built upon and so profiting by fantasies of Hollywood apocalypse, they deserve to. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Godfrey Cheshire

Nov 1, 2013

As for why the film is called "the pervert's" guide, this reviewer noted that its end credits do not acknowledge the many movies it draws upon so copiously. That, in terms of standard filmmaking etiquette, truly is perverse. Read full review

The Telegraph David Gritten

Oct 4, 2013

There are those who find Žižek a delight; but well before the two-hour mark, one feels he has delighted us long enough. Read full review

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DrBlahBlah

May 1, 2017

A great follow up to the Pervert's Guide to Cinema, Ideology gives the viewer a brilliant, counter-intuitive crash course on contemporary ideology and how it functions in film.

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