The Pervert's Guide to Ideology2013
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I enjoy this documentary quite a bit and it opened my eyes to things I was not previously noticing about cinema and film. HOWEVER, I cannot say the same for other parts of Zizek's work - a lot of his lectures and texts are confusing, contradictory, and sometimes just flat-out wrong. While this is an extremely interesting film and an excellent introduction to Zizek, it is important to note that his arguments tend to follow the same formula regardless of what he looks at: "it isn't that _____ is too radical but rather _____ is not radical enough." He frequently clings to novel examples over statistical trends to push his own ideological agenda.
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A series of visual essays by Zizek of film canon which analyzes their implicit 'ideologies', or how they construct subjectivities. Zizek is a clear and eccentric communicator of Nietzschean and Lacanian philosophy, warning us as viewers of film against the pro-capitalist parables in popular cinema.
I enjoy this documentary quite a bit and it opened my eyes to things I was not previously noticing about cinema and film. HOWEVER, I cannot say the same for other parts of Zizek's work - a lot of his lectures and texts are confusing, contradictory, and sometimes just flat-out wrong. While this is an extremely interesting film and an excellent introduction to Zizek, it is important to note that his arguments tend to follow the same formula regardless of what he looks at: "it isn't that _____ is too radical but rather _____ is not radical enough." He frequently clings to novel examples over statistical trends to push his own ideological agenda.
Zizek was unknown to me until I took a chance on 2+hours. Provocative, insightful and exhilarating.
film=culture+perspective, culture+film=perspective, etc,.
Ideology is the classification/declassification of our selves.