The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Overview
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.
- Production
- Amoeba Films, Kasander Film Company, Lone Star Productions, Mischief Films
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Cast
Crew
- Director
- Sophie Fiennes
- Writers
- Slavoj Žižek
- Cinematography
- Remko Schnorr
- Composer
- Brian Eno
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deepkino
September 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 i…