Title:
The pervert's guide to ideology
Author:
Fiennes, Sophie, 1967- , film director, film producer.
Publication Information:
[New York] : Zeitgeist Films, [2014]
©2014
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (136 min.) : DVD video, sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
Slovene philiosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek explores and exposes how the movies we view reinforce prevailing ideologies, shaping both what we believe and how we behave.
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 2013.
Accompanying insert features production notes and a director's statement.
Special features: Q&A with Slavoj Žižek and Sophie Fiennes; U.S. theatrical trailer.
Language:
English
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)).
Reading Level:
MPAA Rating: Not rated.
Personal Subject:
Subject Term:
UPC:
795975115933
Format :
DVD
