Casting Žižek

This paper looks at the phenomenon of "becoming celebrity" of the Slovenian psychoanalytical theorist Slavoj Žižek. It discusses the gap between representation and meaning in two recent films casting Žižek as himself: “Žižek!,” 2005, by Astra Taylor, and “The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema,” 2006, by Sop...

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