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Slavoj Žižek is one of the world's most important contemporary public intellectuals. Much of his popularity stems from his constant and recurring references to popular culture and cinema, as well as his own appearances in films such as
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema and
Examined Life. Although Žižek refers to cinema in order to help explain difficult concepts in his theoretical writing, Matthew Flisfeder argues that Žižek's writing on film radically reorients the scope of contemporary film studies. Returning to questions about ideology and subjectivity, Flisfeder argues that Slavoj Žižek's theories aim to re-politicize film studies and film theory, bringing cinema into the fold of twenty-first century politics.
