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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema: Parts 1, 2, 3

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema: Parts 1, 2, 3
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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema: Parts 1, 2, 3

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THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves. New York Times - Critic's Pick "Zizek's comments [are] so incisive that after watching "The Pervert's Guide to Cinema," you may never see these directors' movies the same way again." Stephen Holden, The New York Times "A virtuoso marriage of image and thought, 'The Pervert's Guide to Cinema' is a propulsive, stream of consciousness sprint through the movie projector mind of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek ... pulled off with wit and assurance by director Sophie Fiennes." Eddie Cockrell, Variety Widely acclaimed as one of the most original thinkers of our time, Slavoj Zizek is a dialectical-materialist philosopher. He is the author of more than fifty books on diverse subjects ranging from opera to religion, film, and the war in Iraq. He has taught at universities including Paris, London, Columbia, Chicago, Duke, Princeton and the New School in New York. He currently holds a post at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana and is Co-Director of the International Centre for Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has been the subject of numerous media profiles in various publications including the Guardian, New Yorker, Liberation (France) and Asahi (Japan). He contributes articles to the Guardian, London Review of Books, and Le Monde (France).

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Director: Sophie Fiennes
Format: NTSC
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5The Best Overview of Cinema I've Ever Seen. Period.  Oct 15, 2009
By LucyC
You get a lot of bang for your buck with The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, and it's guaranteed to blow your mind. Three 50 minute sections direct from the whirling mind of the ever-clever Slavoj Zizek, brilliantly illustrated by Sophie Fiennes. It's hard to overpraise this film - it completely changes the way you watch movies. Like the New York Times said: "The clips from Hitchcock and Lynch films are so numerous and Mr. Zizek's comments so incisive that after watching "The Pervert's Guide to Cinema," you may never see these directors' movies the same way again."
I've watched this film over and over - it's better than any Film 101 class at university.

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4cinema as a pervert art  Sep 21, 2010
By gfpreger
the cinema is the ultimate pervert art, says slavoj zizek, the brilliant left wing provocateur. dublé of philosopher and psychoanalist, the slovenian zizek tries to bring back the art of interpretation focusing in the levels cinema moves our desire. a film, as any work-of-art, do not tells us what to desire but how we desire; as zizek says, desire is not natural in us: we must be taught to desire. To do this, sofhie fiennes puts zizek inside the movies as a endogetic comentator of the films, which are read by a freudian/lacanian perspective. after viewing this film (or films, because there are 3 parts) we all shall have the desire to see the many films zizek talks about during this doc. it is the minimum desire we should have after seeing it...

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