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Slavoj Zizek

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Slavoj Zizek
Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj Žižek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes (The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema) for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, Žižek literally goes inside some truly epochal movies, all the better to explore and expose how they reinforce prevailing ideologies. As the ideology that undergirds our cinematic fantasies is revealed, striking associations emerge: What hidden Catholic teachings lurk at the heart of The Sound of Music? What are the fascist political dimensions of Jaws? Taxi Driver, Zabriskie Point, The Searchers, The Dark Knight, John Carpenter’s They Live (“one of the forgotten masterpieces of the Hollywood Left”), Titanic, Kinder Eggs, verité news footage, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” and propaganda epics from Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia all inform Žižek’s stimulating, provocative and often hilarious psychoanalytic-cinematic rant.
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Slavoj Zizek was born on 21 March 1949 in Llubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia]. He is a writer and actor, known for Bliss (2021), The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012).
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    Known for

    Salma Hayek and Owen Wilson in Bliss (2021)
    Bliss
    5.4
    • Slavoj Zizek
    • 2021
    Slavoj Zizek in The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)
    The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
    7.7
    • Writer
    • 2006
    The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)
    The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
    7.6
    • Writer
    • 2012
    Houston, We Have a Problem! (2016)
    Houston, We Have a Problem!
    7.8
    • Self
    • 2016

    Credits

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    Writer

    • Professor Slavoj Zizek on the Problem with Online Dating (2024)
      Professor Slavoj Zizek on the Problem with Online Dating
      Short
      • writer
      • 2024
    • The Three Lives of Antigony
      Short
      • writer
      • 2018
    • The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)
      The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
      7.6
      • screenplay
      • 2012
    • Slavoj Zizek in The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)
      The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
      7.7
      • Writer
      • 2006
    • Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual (2004)
      Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
      7.3
      • script
      • 2004

    Actor

    • The Pervert's Guide to Utopias
      • Completed
      • 2026
    • I'm a Virgo (2023)
      I'm a Virgo
      7.1
      TV Series
      • Baby
      • 2023
    • Salma Hayek and Owen Wilson in Bliss (2021)
      Bliss
      5.4
      • Slavoj Zizek
      • 2021

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    Personal details

    • Official sites
      • European Graduate School
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    • Born
      • March 21, 1949
      • Llubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia]
    • Children
        Kostja Zizek
    • Parents
        Jose Zizek
    • Other works
      book: "The Sublime Object of Ideology". London: Verso. ISBN 978-0860912569
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      • 1 Article

    Did you know

    • Trivia
      His surname is pronounced ZHEE-zhek. The Z with caron represents a voiced palato-alveolar sound in Czech, Slovakian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Montenegrin, Bosnian, and Macedonian.
    • Quotes
      I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.
    • Trademarks
        Demystifying the Weltschmerz of the Zeitgeist.

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