The Pervert's Guide To Cinema

Watch as many of the films below as possible over the course of the semester, but be sure to watch at least two. You may choose any two you like, but please choose two you haven't seen already.

Possessed (1931) The Matrix (1999) The Birds (1963) Psycho (1960) Duck Soup (1933) Monkey Business (1931) The Exorcist (1973) The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) Alien (1979) The Great Dictator (1940) Mulholland Drive (2001) Alice in Wonderland (1951) The Red Shoes (1948) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Fight Club (1999) Dead of Night (1945) The Conversation (1974) Blue Velvet (1986) Vertigo (1958) Solaris (1972) Wild at Heart (1990) Lost Highway (1997) Persona (1966)

These films will be discussed by Zizek in his Pervert's Guide to Cinema which we will be watching later in the semester. Feel free to watch the films with your friends and/or classmates. Many are available on NetFlix. Some are available from Belk Library.

After you've watched one of these films, please post to this blog a brief description of one of the scenes from the movie that you think might be ripe for a Freudian interpretation.