Movie Mole: The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

Joe Clement talks with Jason Read about psychoanalytic philosopher Slavoj Zizek and Sophie Fiennes philosophical documentary: The Pervert's Guide to Ideology. This is the second film Zizek and Fiennes have made together, the first being The Pervert's Guide to Cinema. Both films analyze dozens of films and uses films to illustrate concepts in psychoanalysis, the critique of ideology, and how we might recognize the subtle and difficult ways we are implicated in ideology.

Jason Read is a philosophy professor at the University of Southern Maine. He blogs at Unemployed Negativity and is interested in marxist and feminist theory, film and popular culture, and the politics of work.