CALLING ALL PERVERTS!

Slavoj Zizek has a new manual for enjoying your symptom. Following on the heels of “Zizek!”, Astra Taylor's 2006 documentary, Zizek's latest venture into cinema is now screening on the festival circuit. Between writing such recent books as The Parallax View, editing the Short Circuits series at the MIT Press, and churning out numerous articles for the likes of The Guardian and The London Review of Books, Zizek found the time to offer us “The Pervert's Guide to Cinema Parts 1, 2, 3.” In Zizek's own words, ‘Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.’ With his characteristic humor, gusto, and always innovative insight, Zizek takes on masters such as David Lynch and Alfred Hitchcock, and utilizes some of the greatest movies ever made to illustrate and assemble ideas on fantasy, desire, sexuality, subjectivity, and the unconscious. It is safe to say that we may never view the Marx Brothers, The Wizard of Oz, or The Birds in quite the same way again.

If your town is not on the list of screening cities, you can buy the DVD.