The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySophie Fiennes
Written bySlavoj Žižek
Produced bySophie Fiennes
Georg Misch
Martin Rosenbaum
Ralph Wieser
StarringSlavoj Žižek
CinematographyRemko Schnorr
Edited bySophie Fiennes
Marek Kralovsky
Ethel Shepherd
Music byBrian Eno
Production
companies
Mischief Films
Amoeba Film
Distributed byP Guide Ltd.
ICA Projects (UK)
Release dates
  • 17 June 2006 (2006-06-17) (Sydney Film Festival)
  • 16 January 2009 (2009-01-16) (United States)
Running time
150 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Austria
Netherlands
LanguageEnglish

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema is a 2006 documentary directed and produced by Sophie Fiennes, and scripted and presented by Slavoj Žižek. It explores a number of films from a psychoanalytic theoretical perspective.

Fiennes and Žižek released a follow-up, The Pervert's Guide to Ideology on 15 November 2012, with a similar format; Žižek speaks from within reconstructed scenes from films.

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