The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
2012
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Synopsis
A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious appetite for popular culture, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek analyzes several of the most important films in the history of cinema to explain how cinematic narrative helps to reinforce prevailing ethics and political ideas.
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) is a 2h 11min documentary feature film by Sophie Fiennes. A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs an...
Key facts
Cast
Slavoj Žižek
Original language
Arabic
First release
November 15, 2012 (Greece)
Crew
Screenplay
Slavoj Žižek
Producer
James Wilson, Katie Holly, Martin Rosenbaum, Sophie Fiennes
Cinematography
Remko Schnorr
Editing
Sophie Fiennes
Music
Magnus Fiennes
Trailer
Stills
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Festival History
- International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013 generic
- San Francisco International Film Festival 2013 generic
- Seattle International Film Festival 2013 generic
- CPH:DOX 2012 generic
- Toronto International Film Festival 2012 generic
Releases & classifications
| Theatrical | Greece | November 15, 2012 |
| Theatrical | United Kingdom | October 4, 2013 |
| Theatrical | Ireland | October 4, 2013 |
| Theatrical | Spain | October 14, 2013 |
| Theatrical | United States | November 1, 2013 |
| Television | Finland | November 20, 2013 |
| Theatrical | Poland | December 6, 2013 |
| Theatrical | Italy | January 30, 2014 |
| Theatrical | Portugal | November 27, 2014 |
| Theatrical | Japan | October 8, 2016 |
| Classification | United Kingdom | 15 |
| Classification | United States | R |
Versions & editions
| Home video | Greece | March 13, 2014 |
| Home video | Germany | September 2, 2016 |
Full credits
| Director | Sophie Fiennes |
| Cast | Slavoj Žižek (Self - Host / Philosopher) |
| Screenplay | Slavoj Žižek |
| Producer | James Wilson, Katie Holly, Martin Rosenbaum, Sophie Fiennes |
| Executive producer | Julia Godzinskaya, Katherine Butler, Michael Sackler, Shani Hinton, Tabitha Jackson |
| Cinematography | Remko Schnorr |
| Editing | Sophie Fiennes |
| Music | Magnus Fiennes |
| Production design | Lucy van Lonkhuyzen |
| Sound | Steve Fanagan |
Additional data: TMDB.
