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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Documentary · 2012
A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious appetite for popular culture, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek analyzes several of the most important films in the history of cinema to explain how cinematic narrative helps to reinforce prevailing ethics and political ideas.
The sides of The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
- Slavoj Žižek standing inside scenes from famous films
- Ideology read through Hollywood
- Psychoanalysis applied to pop culture
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology is good for you if…
- you like a philosopher talking nonstop about films you know.
- you like ideas you have to work to follow.
- you want to see how films quietly sell you politics.
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology is bad for you if…
- you can't sit through more than two hours of one man talking.
- you want a story with people, not a lecture.
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