The pervert's guide to ideology [DVD video]

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Title:

Added Author:

Fiennes, Sophie, 1967-

Wilson, James.

Žižek, Slavoj.

Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

[New York] : Zeitgeist Films, 2014.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (136 min) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (4 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)

Abstract:

Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj Žižek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, Slovene philiosopher and psychoanalyst Žižek literally goes inside some truly epochal movies to explore and expose how they reinforce prevailing ideologies, shaping both what we believe and how we behave.

General Note:

Title from container.

Originally produced as a documentary film in 2012.

"featuring Slavoj Žižek" -- container.

Accompanying insert features production notes, a director's statement, and chapters & film guide.

Special features: Q&A with Slavoj Žižek and Sophie Fiennes; U.S. theatrical trailer.

Performers:

Commentator/narrator, Slavoj Zizek.

Contents:

Critique-of-ideology glasses (They live (John Carpenter, 1988)) -- Climbing mountains (The sound of music (Robert Wise, 1965)) -- Kinder eggs & Coca Cola -- Perverse universal fraternity (Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa, 1964), A clockwork orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)) -- Cynical ideology (West Side story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, 1961)) -- Fantasies of victimhood (Taxi driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976), The searchers (John Ford, 1956)) -- Trading all fears for one fear alone (Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975), Triumph of the will (Leni Riefenstahl, 1935)) -- The abyss of suspicion (The eternal Jew (Fritz Hippler, 1940), Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)) -- Ultimate consumerism (I am legend (Francis Lawrence, 2007)) -- Illusion of eternal love (Titanic (James Cameron, 1997), Oratorio for Prague (Jan Nemec, 1968), The fall of Berlin (Mikhail Chiareli, 1950)) -- Obscene rituals (Full metal jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987), M*A*S*H (Robert Altman, 1970), If -- (Lindsay Anderson, 1968)) -- Lies of social order (The dark knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)) -- The big other (Loves of a blonde (Milos Forman, 1965), The fireman's ball (Milos Forman, 1967), Brief encounter (David Lean, 1945)) -- Bureaucracy and Christianity (Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985), The last temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988)) -- Dreams gone wrong (Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966), Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970)) -- end credits & icebergs.

Technical Details:

DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (16:9) presentation; HD transfer enhanced for widescreen viewing.

Personal Subject:

Subject Term:

Philosophy in motion pictures.

Ideology in motion pictures.

Culture in motion pictures.

Symbolism in motion pictures.