The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema is a 2006 documentary directed and produced by Sophie Fiennes, and 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 15 November 2012, with a similar format; Žižek speaks from within reconstructed scenes from films.

List of films discussed

• 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)
• ' (1964)
• Seconds (1966)
• Persona (1966)
• Solaris (1972)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• The Conversation (1974)
• Alien (1979)
• Stalker (1979)
• Dune (1984)
• Blue Velvet (1986)
• Wild at Heart (1990)
• ' (1993)
• Lost Highway (1997)
• ' (1997)
• The Matrix (1999)
• Fight Club (1999)
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
• Mulholland Drive (2001)
• The Piano Teacher (2001)
• In the Cut (2003)
• Dogville (2003)
• ' (2005)

Reception

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema holds an 87% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on reviews from 23 critics.

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

External links

• Complete transcript of the first part with added commentary and stills.