Summary: "The brilliant philosopher Slavoj Zizek with filmmaker Sophie Fiennes, now using their inventive interpretation of moving pictures to examine ideology. The collective fantasies that shape our beliefs and practices."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PERSummary: Examined Life takes philosophy into the hustle and bustle of the everyday. The "rock star" philosophers of our time take "walks" through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas. These places include crowded city streets, deserted alleyways, Central Park, and a garbage dump.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Zeitgeist Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EXASummary: "A film about cinema itself, with close readings of some of the most intriguing and celebrated films in cinema history. Serving as guide is the charismatic Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek, who delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves. Structured in three parts, the Pervert's Guide To Cinema offers an introduction to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: P Guide 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PERZizek, Slavoj
Summary: In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Žižek, it is only when we have admit to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train approaching...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 ZIZZizek, Slavoj.
Summary: "Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Zizek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Zizek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the permissiveness of violence in philanthropy; and, in daring terms, he reflects on the powerful image and determination of contemporary...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2008