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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema( 2006)

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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.

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      Slavoj Žižek

      Self - Host / Philosopher

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      Alfred Hitchcock

      Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

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    A review by deepkino

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    Written by deepkino on Thu Sep 18 2025
    The Pervert's Guide to Cinema: A Lacanian Laughter! Slavoj Žižek’s The Pervert's Guide to Cinema isn't a film review; it's a wild, intellectual odyssey into the ideological and unconscious fantasies that lie beneath the surface of cinema. Žižek, inhabits the very cinematic spaces he is dissecting, from the toilet in The Matrix to the couch from A Clockwork Orange, to deliver a masterclass in Lacanian psychoanalysis. He views films not as stories but as reflections of our deepest desires and ideological traps, arguing for instance, that the true perversion of The Matrix is not the red or blue...

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    Facts

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    Released

    Original Language

    English

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    Keywords

    • cinema on cinema
    • philosophy
    • pop culture
    • psychoanalysis
    • sigmund freud
    • documentary filmmaking
    • woman director
    • cinema history