I've recently watched Slavoj Zizek's new film, The Pevert's Guide to Ideology, which has just come into the library. Like it's predecessor, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, this is a cinematic thesis which draws from Zizek's writing, and uses films as points of illustration and analysis. Although I sometimes felt his argument jumped around a bit, and I was left wondering how some of the points he was making linked together, it was a hugely entertaining and thought-provoking film.
There were some great clips used as illustration, drawn from an eclectic mix of films, which I have listed below. Where they are available on our TV archive, Box of Broadcasts, I have also provided links, so that, if we want, we can revisit the whole film.
A press release for the film is available in the contact section of the film's website: http://www.thepervertsguide.com/ideology/
They Live (1988) / John Carpenter
A Clockwork Orange (1971) / Stanley Kubrick
West Side Story (1961) / Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins [ON DVD]
Taxi Driver (1976) / Martin Scorsese
The Searchers (1956) / John Ford
Jaws (1975) / Steven Spielberg
Triumph of the Will (1935) / Leni Riefenstahl [ON DVD]
The Eternal Jew (1940) / Fritz Hippler
Cabaret (1972) / Bob Fosse
I Am Legend (2007) / Francis Lawrence
Titanic (1997) / James Cameron
The Fall of Berlin (1950) / Mikhail Chiareli
Full Metal Jacket (1987) / Stanley Kubrick
Mash (1970) / Robert Altman
If (1968) / Lindsay Anderson
The Dark Knight (2008) / Christopher Nolan [ON DVD]
The Loves of a Blonde (1965) / Milos Forman
The Fireman’s Ball (1967) / Milos Forman [ON DVD]
Brief Encounter (1945) / David Lean
Brazil (1985) / Terry Gilliam
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) / Martin Scorsese [ON DVD]
Seconds (1966) / John Frankenheimer
Zabriskie Point (1970) / Michelangelo Antonioni [VIDEOTAPE]
