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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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  1. 473 -424

    The Beginning of Life

    1968, in 1 top list Check
  2. 161 +178

    Tôkyô sensô sengo hiwa

    1970 — a.k.a. The Man Who Put His Will on Film, in 3 top lists Check
  3. 163 +152

    Life with Video

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  4. 9 +209

    Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter

    1972 — a.k.a. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, in 3 top lists Check
  5. 442 -301

    Shinjuku dorobô nikki

    1969 — a.k.a. Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, in 1 top list Check
  6. 481 -422

    Birth and Death

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  7. 215 -213

    12-12-42

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  8. 182 +48

    Der Hamburger Aufstand Oktober 1923

    1971 — a.k.a. The Hamburg Uprising of 1923, in 1 top list Check
  9. 327 +108

    Putney Swope

    1969, in 3 top lists Check
  10. 144 -90

    Beyond the Law

    1968, in 2 top lists Check
  11. 522 new

    The Pawnbroker

    1964, in 5 top lists Check
  12. 390 -57

    Ljubite se, ne ratujte

    1971 — a.k.a. Make Love, Not War, in 1 top list Check
  13. 317 -78

    The Hellstrom Chronicle

    1971, in 3 top lists Check
  14. 445 -251

    Flesh of Morning

    1956, in 2 top lists Check
  15. 128 +321

    Még kér a nép

    1972 — a.k.a. Red Psalm, in 4 top lists Check
  16. 89 new

    The Boston Strangler

    1968, in 2 top lists Check
  17. 301 +55

    Mandabi

    1968 — a.k.a. The Money Order, in 5 top lists Check
  18. 409 -150

    Jag är nyfiken - en film i blått

    1968 — a.k.a. I Am Curious (Blue), in 3 top lists Check
  19. 465 new

    Scheiss-Kerl

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  20. 308 +213

    Feine Spielwaren - Made in USA

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  21. 503 +57

    Vietnam, Land of Fire

    1966, in 1 top list Check
  22. 424 +126

    Unfolding

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  23. 419 +71

    Sex

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  24. 385 -295

    Casanova

    1927, in 2 top lists Check
  25. 506 -475

    Archeologia

    1968 — a.k.a. Archaeology, in 1 top list Check
  26. 509 -426

    Motýli tady nezijí

    1958, in 1 top list Check
  27. 178 -

    An Evil Hour

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  28. 286 -191

    Desnutrición infantil

    1969 — a.k.a. Child Undernourishment, in 1 top list Check
  29. 507 +31

    Mesto darované

    1965 — a.k.a. A Town Presented to the Jews as a Gift by the Führer, in 1 top list Check
  30. 425 +66

    L'ombre de la pomme

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  31. 259 +120

    Nije ptica sve sto leti

    1970 — a.k.a. Not Everything That Flies Is a Bird, in 1 top list Check
  32. 137 +333

    Runaway

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  33. 430 -184

    Holding

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  34. 428 +96

    Take Me

    1968, in 1 top list Check
  35. 415 -13

    Orange

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  36. 362 +42

    Obyknovennyy fashizm

    1965 — a.k.a. Triumph Over Violence, in 6 top lists Check
  37. 421 +46

    Room Service 75

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  38. 403 -160

    A History of the Blue Movie

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  39. 433 -427

    L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock

    1962 — a.k.a. The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, in 3 top lists Check
  40. 581 -263

    Lions Love

    1969 — a.k.a. Lions Love (... and Lies), in 2 top lists Check
  41. 205 +229

    Punishment Park

    1971, in 5 top lists Check
  42. 483 -356

    Death Day

    1934, in 1 top list Check
  43. 16 +438

    Relativity

    1966, in 1 top list Check
  44. 366 -156

    Le gai savoir

    1969 — a.k.a. Joy of Learning, in 1 top list Check
  45. 192 -95

    La chinoise

    1967 — a.k.a. The Chinese, in 5 top lists Check
  46. 188 -107

    The Brig

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  47. 536 -156

    A Note from Above

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  48. 138 +363

    Sleep

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  49. 40 +525

    Viva la muerte

    1971 — a.k.a. Long Live Death, in 2 top lists Check
  50. 485 -317

    The End of One

    1973, in 1 top list Check
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