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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Magritte ou La leçon de choses
1960, in 1 top list Check -
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A La Mode
1959, in 1 top list Check -
65 -4
Black and White Burlesque
1960, in 1 top list Check -
70 +178
Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York'
1960, in 1 top list Check -
106 -69
L'avventura
1960 — a.k.a. L'Avventura, in 24 top lists Check -
116 -36
À bout de souffle
1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check -
165 -132
Arnulf Rainer
1960, in 4 top lists Check -
231 -213
Wsród ludzi
1960 — a.k.a. Among Men, in 1 top list Check -
256 +20
Niewinni czarodzieje
1960 — a.k.a. Innocent Sorcerers, in 4 top lists Check -
276 -238
Zezowate szczescie
1960 — a.k.a. Bad Luck, in 5 top lists Check -
320 +80
Operation Abolition
1962, in 1 top list Check -
354 +61
The Path
1960, in 1 top list Check -
364 +67
Psycho
1960, in 39 top lists Check -
513 -252
Bylem kapo
1963, in 1 top list Check -
532 -263
L'imitation du cinéma
1960, in 1 top list Check -
558 +3
Village of the Damned
1960, in 5 top lists Check
Last updated on Mar 26, 2024 by joachimt; source