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‘The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology’ Review

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Christopher Campbell
Oct 31, 2013
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In The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, Sophie Fiennes’ first cinematic foray into the intellect of Slavoj Žižek (popular culture’s favorite celebrity theorist), he discusses cinema as an instructive tool for desire — not as a way to satisfy our desires, but as a mechanism for teaching us how to desire. In the second collaboration between the filmmaker and sc…

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