Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art (1974)
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Original 1974 version.
This presentation of the book is very similar to the official iCM-list version. The main difference (and basically the only difference) is that this version include an additional 22 entries (examples of non-subversive films) which the official list version excludes (also, the order of the entries is slightly different). In other words, this list includes ALL films mentioned regardless if they are subversive or not. However, some films (or "entries" to be more precise) are not on IMDb yet, or appear in the book with unidentifiable stills (see bottom of list description).
Films are sorted by the order they appear in the book.
In some cases, the same film is discussed several times in different sections throughout the book (Blowup, 2001: A Space Odyssey, L'âge d'or, W.R. etc. They are listed here by their FIRST appearance in the book regardless if the film is discussed more thoroughly at a later stage in the book.
#1-24: Acknowledgements, Preface and "The World View of Subversive Cinema"
#1-2: Front cover and Back cover (and also mentioned in Acknowledgements).
#25-193 :Part One - The Subversion of Form
#25-37: Revolutionary Film Avant-garde in Soviet Russia
#38-98: Aesthetic Rebels and Rebellious Clowns
#99-117: The Destruction of Time and Space
#118-131: The Destruction of Plot and Narrative
#132-141: The Assault of Montage
#142-160: The Triumph and Death of the Moving Camera
#161-162: The Devaluation of Language
#163-193: Straining towards the Limits
#194-386: Part Two - The Subversion of Content
#194: International Left and Revolutionary Cinema
#195-257: Left and Revolutionary Cinema: the West
#258-307: Left and Revolutionary Cinema: the East
#308-332: Left and Revolutionary Cinema: Third World
#333-338: East Germany: Against the West
#339-352: Nazi Cinema
#353-386: Secrets and Revelations
#387-599: Part Three - Forbidden Subjects of the Cinema
#387-403: The Visual Taboo
#404-423: Nudity
#424-468: Erotic and Pornographic Cinema
#469-508: Homosexuality and Other Variants
#509-514: The First Mystery: Birth
#515-547: The Ultimate Secret: Death
#548-575: The Attack on God
#576-599: Trance and Witchcraft
#600-621: Part Four - Towards a New Consciousness
#600-619: Counterculture and Avant-garde
#620-621: The Subversion of Subversion
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Films mentioned in the original version but not included in the revised version and/or iCM version:
Staroye i novoye (Old and New)
Alexander Nevsky
Battleship Potemkin
Ivan the Terrible Part 1
Ivan the Terrible Part 2
The Great Train Robbery
Das blaue Licht
Intolerance
Cleopatra
Der blaue Engel
Gone with the Wind
The Sound of Music
Journal d'un curé de campagne
If...
O Lucky Man!
The Graduate
Romeo and Juliet
Lebenszeichen
Love Story
Tout va bien
¡Que viva México!
The Second in Command (The Second Coming)
...for a total of 22 additional entries compared to the iCM-version.
"Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht" page 87; never explicitly mentioned but referred to when discussing Pere Portabella's "Cuadecuc, vampir". It IS mentioned in the revised version however.
"Der geile Wotan" is included here as it is mentioned and referred to, but is in fact a faulty entry (correctly replaced by the correct film "SS und Judenstern" in the revised iCM-version), page 254.
Unidentifiable Keystone Film circa 1915 (page 50-51, featured still) is in fact "In the Clutches of the Gang".
Unknown films/entries:
UFA Newsreel, 1940 (page 194)
Unidentified Nazi documentary footage (page 278)
Unidentified Nazi documentary footage (page 280)
Entries that aren't on IMDb:
Beaver Films (Stag, 1970, USA), page 221; revised version list the years as 1967-72.
The None Story (Stag, 1950s, USA), page 225; titled "The Nun's Story" in the revised version.
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La jetée
1962 — a.k.a. La Jetée, in 19 top lists Check -
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Masculin féminin
1966 — a.k.a. Masculine-Feminine, in 7 top lists Check -
93 new
Horse Feathers
1932, in 6 top lists Check -
94 new
The Navigator
1924, in 14 top lists Check -
106 new
Hiroshima mon amour
1959 — a.k.a. Hiroshima Mon Amour, in 17 top lists Check -
119 new
Gone with the Wind
1939, in 31 top lists Check -
121 new
Love Story
1970, in 6 top lists Check -
127 new
Don Giovanni
1970, in 1 top list Check -
134 new
À bout de souffle
1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check -
137 new
Prima della rivoluzione
1964 — a.k.a. Before the Revolution, in 8 top lists Check -
144 new
Varieté
1925 — a.k.a. Variety, in 6 top lists Check -
240 new
Pioniere in Ingolstadt
1971 — a.k.a. Pioneers in Ingolstadt, in 1 top list Check -
284 new
Niewinni czarodzieje
1960 — a.k.a. Innocent Sorcerers, in 4 top lists Check -
354 new
La règle du jeu
1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check -
361 new
Le genou de Claire
1970 — a.k.a. Claire's Knee, in 7 top lists Check -
390 new
Vertigo
1958, in 42 top lists Check -
393 new
Et Dieu... créa la femme
1956 — a.k.a. ...And God Created Woman, in 5 top lists Check -
408 new
Ekstase
1933 — a.k.a. Ecstasy, in 4 top lists Check -
411 new
The Graduate
1967, in 29 top lists Check -
412 new
Romeo and Juliet
1968, in 5 top lists Check -
418 new
Ultimo tango a Parigi
1972 — a.k.a. Last Tango in Paris, in 19 top lists Check -
424 new
La ronde
1950 — a.k.a. La Ronde, in 8 top lists Check -
432 new
Lásky jedné plavovlásky
1965 — a.k.a. The Loves of a Blonde, in 12 top lists Check -
438 new
Käre John
1964 — a.k.a. Dear John, in 2 top lists Check -
443 new
The Go-Between
1971, in 8 top lists Check -
451 new
Die Büchse der Pandora
1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check -
474 new
Un chant d'amour
1950 — a.k.a. A Song of Love, in 7 top lists Check -
477 new
Le départ
1967 — a.k.a. The Departure, in 2 top lists Check -
489 new
Heat
1972, in 1 top list Check -
537 new
L'amore in città
1953 — a.k.a. Love in the City, in 2 top lists Check -
548 new
Sommarnattens leende
1955 — a.k.a. Smiles of a Summer Night, in 14 top lists Check -
551 new
Jules et Jim
1962 — a.k.a. Jules and Jim, in 21 top lists Check
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