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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
2012 · Film · documentary · 131 min
Part of The Pervert's Guide Collection
Directed by Sophie Fiennes
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.
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Slavoj Zizek - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema / The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Write an enigmatic but hilarious joke about Slavoj Žižek and Pee Wee Herman.
Why did Slavoj Žižek and Pee Wee Herman go to the cinema?
To see "The Pervert's Guide to Ideology"!
Explain.
"The Pervert's Guide to Ideology" is a 2012 documentary film that features Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek discussing the relationship between ideology and popular culture. Pee Wee Herman, on the other hand, is a fictional character played by American actor Paul Reubens, known for his childlike behavior and eccentric personality.
The joke implies that both Slavoj Žižek and Pee Wee Herman are interested in exploring the deeper meanings behind cultural phenomena, and that they would both enjoy watching a film that delves into these complex philosophical ideas. The punchline of the joke is the unexpected pairing of these two seemingly unrelated individuals, adding a humorous and enigmatic twist to the joke.
F for Fake by Orson Welles. Documentaries on art forgers (not 'how this art forger was caught!' which is of secondary importance) all tend to be interesting, but this is transcendent.
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology' by Slavoj zizek/Sophie Fiennes.
Hypernormalization* is an Adam Curtis doc so you'll love or hate it, but I think it's his best one.
Yup. As soon as you think you're "non-ideological" at that point you're fully ensconced in ideology, because your beliefs are so invisible to you that you mistake them for reality. Zizek beats this drum a lot. He did a very entertaining documentary on the subject called The Pervert's Guide to Ideology, examining ideology through the lens of various classic films. You can see a fun excerpt here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVwKjGbz60k
This article is a good summary, but I think it still doesn't drive home the point. I didn't really grasp ideology until I watched (don't wince) Slavoj Zizek's "The Pervert's Guide to Ideology." I understood the textbook version of the word, but seeing it explained over and over in multiple film contexts and then calling that back to history really drove home the point: how ideologies are an effective tool in manipulating humans. I highly recommend this film even though it is popular to both adore Zizek and dunk on him (like all people he has his faults).
Not really unusual, I don't watch 99% of film or TV either because famous quote time is the fire in which we burn, you just end up losing interest in bs. The solution is find better media https://archive.org/details/2013ThePervertsGuideToIdeology/2013+-+The+Pervert's+Guide+to+Ideology.mp4
If this sort of narrative-media-centered analysis of society appeals to you, you'd probably enjoy Slavoj Zizek. His documentary The Pervert's Guide to Ideology is quite enjoyable. I honestly wondered whether this was a Zizek piece at parts.
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach. I also recommend Zizek's The Sublime Object of Ideology, but it's dense, so his film The Pervert's Guide to Ideology is a good stand in.
Aw, thanks :) Sadly I don't think I'm going to have the luxury for pure art for the next few years.
But if you're hungry for more of this, check out Slavoj zizek's film criticism, I think The Pervert's Guide to Ideology is on Netflix.
"I already am eating from the trashcan all the time. The name of this trashcan is ideology.
The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating. It’s not only our reality which enslaves us. The tragedy of our predicament when we are within ideology is that when we think that we escape it into our dreams, at that point we are within ideology."[1]
This is a really nice documentary about all the unspoken assumptions that permeate our day to day lives, I would really recommend everybody to see it.
None of this is scientific or empirical, but the thing is, neither are the myriad of day-to-day assumptions that we usually take as obvious or common sense.
[1] The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)
Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18qD9hmU9xg
This is an excerpt from Slavoj zizek's Pervert's Guide to Ideology, which in turn excerpts the cult sci-fi film They Live. Both are very much worth your time.