Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art
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"Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored." So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago are still relevant today, and readily accessible in this classic volume. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, Film as a Subversive Art analyzes how aesthetic, sexual, and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions."
This list contains all movies in the revised version from 2021.
Included in this list are movies:
1. with dedicated texts.
2. shown in movie stills.
3. mentioned otherwise as an example of subversive cinema in the context of the text it is mentioned in.
Excluded from this list are movies that are mentioned in any other way than an example of subversive cinema.
The movies are sorted by appearance in the book. Some movies appear multiple times. In that case, the preferred position is the dedicated text, then a movie still and lastly a mention.
The book is divided into parts:
Introduction (#1 - #20)
Part 1 - Weapons of Subversion: The Subversion of Form (#21 - #170)
Part 2 - Weapons of Subversion: The Subversion of Content (#171 - #355)
Part 3 - Weapons of Subversion: Forbidden Subjects of the Cinema (#356 - #572)
Part 4 - Towards a New Consciousness (#573 - #598)
#599 is the back cover.
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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 30 top lists Check -
37 +55
The Cat and the Canary
1927, in 5 top lists Check -
38 +74
Spalovac mrtvol
1969 — a.k.a. The Cremator, in 13 top lists Check -
52 +242
King Kong
1933, in 26 top lists Check -
112 +444
Cuadecuc, vampir
1971, in 4 top lists Check -
164 +255
Persona
1966, in 25 top lists Check -
240 -42
Muha
1967, in 1 top list Check -
252 -21
Ruka
1965 — a.k.a. The Hand, in 7 top lists Check -
364 +67
Psycho
1960, in 39 top lists Check -
365 +190
Vampyr
1932, in 18 top lists Check -
433 -427
L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock
1962 — a.k.a. The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, in 3 top lists Check -
435 -365
La fée sanguinaire
1969, in 1 top list Check -
438 -356
Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal
1971 — a.k.a. Don't Deliver Us from Evil, in 2 top lists Check -
479 -472
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
1971, in 9 top lists Check -
482 -414
Le sang des bêtes
1949 — a.k.a. Blood of the Beasts, in 10 top lists Check -
484 -346
Les diaboliques
1955 — a.k.a. Diabolique, in 21 top lists Check -
535 -174
Matka Joanna od Aniolów
1961 — a.k.a. Mother Joan of the Angels, in 6 top lists Check -
550 -493
The Big Shave
1967, in 3 top lists Check -
557 -179
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check -
558 +3
Village of the Damned
1960, in 5 top lists Check -
559 -161
Onibaba
1964, in 13 top lists Check -
560 -103
Repulsion
1965, in 17 top lists Check -
565 -286
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956, in 19 top lists Check -
566 -362
Freaks
1932, in 19 top lists Check -
570 +16
Häxan
1922, in 17 top lists Check
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