"THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is a Conservative Liberal Film" - Slavoj Žižek (2012) | TIFF REWIND
Recorded in 2012 at TIFF Lightbox, this wide-ranging conversation features philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek in dialogue about cinema, ideology, psychoanalysis, and desire. Moving freely between Hitchcock, Hollywood blockbusters, pornography, and political myth-making, Žižek unpacks how film form itself produces ideology - often in contradiction to its explicit message. From Titanic and Vertigo to Spielberg, Nolan, and beyond, this talk captures Žižek at his most provocative, funny, and incisive, arguing that cinema doesn’t just reflect what we believe, but teaches us how to want. Timestamps 00:00 – 02:45 Why Titanic needs the iceberg 02:45 – 05:27 Perversion vs. hysteria in cinema and politics 05:27 – 10:20 Hollywood as a machine that teaches us how to desire 10:20 – 14:19 Hitchcock, form, and ideology 14:19 – 21:12 Titanic as bourgeois myth and class fantasy 21:12 – 26:27 Spielberg, fathers, and ideological fantasy 26:27 – 30:37 When TV (24) is more honest than liberal cinema 30:37 – 36:22 Vertigo vs. Citizen Kane and formalism 36:22 – 43:54 Why Vertigo allows endless analysis 43:54 – 50:21 Cinema, Anxiety, and authentic emotion 50:21 – 52:11 Audience Q&A begins 52:11 – 58:11 Film as social control and “regulated transgression” For more about the Toronto International Film Festival and our year-round programming at TIFF Lightbox, visit http://tiff.net. Subscribe to watch more from TIFF: / tiff Want more TIFF? Find us here: / tiff_net / tiff_net / tiff_net / tiffnet

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