The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Sophie Fiennes
Produced by	Sophie Fiennes Georg Misch Martin Rosenbaum Ralph Wieser
Written by	Slavoj Žižek
Starring	Slavoj Žižek
Music by	Brian Eno
Cinematography	Remko Schnorr
Edited by	Sophie Fiennes Marek Kralovsky Ethel Shepherd
Production company	Mischief Films Amoeba Film
Distributed by	P Guide Ltd. ICA Projects (UK)
Release dates	June 17, 2006 (Sydney Film Festival) January 16, 2009 (United States)
Running time	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, 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 November 15, 2012.^[1] The format is similar, with Žižek speaking from within reconstructed scenes from films.^[2]

List of films

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)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Persona (1966) Solaris (1972) The Exorcist (1973) The Conversation (1974) Alien (1979) Stalker (1979) Dune (1984) Blue Velvet (1986) Wild at Heart (1990) Three Colors: Blue (1993) Lost Highway (1997) Alien Resurrection (1997) The Matrix (1999) Fight Club (1999) Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Mulholland Drive (2001) The Piano Teacher (2001) In the Cut (2003) Dogville (2003) Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)

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!

References

1. Anne Thompson, "Pervert’s Guide to Cinema’s Fiennes and Zizek Reteam for Pervert’s Guide to Ideology," on October 14, 2011. Indiewire
2. Danny Leigh, "Slavoj Žižek: Blofeld rides again," The Guardian, October 16, 2011.

External links

• Official website
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema at the Internet Movie Database
• Complete transcript of the first part with added commentary and stills.