The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

Sapığın İdeoloji Rehberi (The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology), 2012

UK-Ireland, DVD, Color, 135’, English

Director: Sophie Fiennes

Cast: Slavoj Zizek

Popular thinker of today’s philosophy world Slavoj Zizek teams once more with Sophie Fiennes in The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology which is a kind of sequel, in formal terms, to his first documentary The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, in which he explores cinema’s relationship with psychoanalysis. Zizek, who views our current society as being post-modern, says that society is dominated by a consumerist ideology and that its values are enjoyment, fantasy, and desire. By applying psychoanalysis to various examples from Hollywood and world cinema he discloses the ideological messages hidden in the text. Besides films such as Taxi Driver, Jaws, Titanic, Full Metal Jacket, and the Dark Knight, the documentary includes messages used in certain films from world cinema made mainly for propaganda purposes and in commercials of major commodity brands in the consumer society.