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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  1. 123 -89

    L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat

    1896 — a.k.a. The Arrival of a Train, in 13 top lists Check
  2. 31 new

    In the Clutches of the Gang

    1914, in 1 top list Check
  3. 404 +192

    A Free Ride

    1915, in 1 top list Check
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    Les vampires

    1915, in 14 top lists Check
  5. 81 +509

    Work

    1915 — a.k.a. The Paperhanger, in 1 top list Check
  6. 83 +436

    Sunnyside

    1919, in 4 top lists Check
  7. 32 +53

    Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

    1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 30 top lists Check
  8. 570 +16

    Häxan

    1922, in 17 top lists Check
  9. 557 -179

    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check
  10. 543 -120

    The Pilgrim

    1923, in 6 top lists Check
  11. 141 +319

    Rhythmus 21

    1923, in 3 top lists Check
  12. 143 -104

    Ballet mécanique

    1924, in 7 top lists Check
  13. 599 new

    Entr'acte

    1924, in 9 top lists Check
  14. 125 +180

    Der letzte Mann

    1924 — a.k.a. The Last Laugh, in 17 top lists Check
  15. 80 +292

    The Navigator

    1924, in 14 top lists Check
  16. 140 -1

    Symphonie diagonale

    1924 — a.k.a. Symphonie diaganale, in 3 top lists Check
  17. 36 +273

    Feu Mathias Pascal

    1925, in 2 top lists Check
  18. 22 +493

    Stachka

    1925 — a.k.a. Strike, in 14 top lists Check
  19. 129 +428

    Varieté

    1925 — a.k.a. Variety, in 6 top lists Check
  20. 62 -39

    Anémic cinéma

    1926, in 3 top lists Check
  21. 21 +63

    Po zakonu

    1926 — a.k.a. By the Law, in 10 top lists Check
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    Casanova

    1927, in 2 top lists Check
  23. 37 +55

    The Cat and the Canary

    1927, in 5 top lists Check
  24. 27 +142

    Konets Sankt-Peterburga

    1927 — a.k.a. The End of St. Petersburg, in 4 top lists Check
  25. 28 +362

    Oktyabr

    1927 — a.k.a. October (Ten Days that Shook the World), in 12 top lists Check
  26. 577 -531

    Tretya meshchanskaya

    1927 — a.k.a. Bed and Sofa, in 6 top lists Check
  27. 24 +488

    Potomok Chingis-Khana

    1928 — a.k.a. Storm Over Asia, in 8 top lists Check
  28. 25 +10

    Arsenal

    1929, in 7 top lists Check
  29. 30 +26

    Big Business

    1929, in 5 top lists Check
  30. 26 +314

    Chelovek s kino-apparatom

    1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
  31. 44 -24

    Un chien andalou

    1929 — a.k.a. An Andalusian Dog, in 25 top lists Check
  32. 413 -5

    Die Büchse der Pandora

    1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check
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    Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure

    1929, in 1 top list Check
  34. 156 +71

    H2O

    1929, in 2 top lists Check
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    L'âge d'or

    1930 — a.k.a. L'Age d'Or, in 16 top lists Check
  36. 171 -166

    À propos de Nice

    1930 — a.k.a. À Propos de Nice, in 9 top lists Check
  37. 23 +131

    Zemlya

    1930 — a.k.a. Earth, in 16 top lists Check
  38. 459 -131

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
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    Freaks

    1932, in 19 top lists Check
  40. 79 +172

    Horse Feathers

    1932, in 6 top lists Check
  41. 189 +76

    L'idée

    1932 — a.k.a. The Idea, in 2 top lists Check
  42. 353 +86

    Queen Kelly

    1932, in 8 top lists Check
  43. 97 -30

    Le sang d'un poète

    1932 — a.k.a. The Blood of a Poet, in 9 top lists Check
  44. 365 +190

    Vampyr

    1932, in 18 top lists Check
  45. 370 -210

    Ekstase

    1933 — a.k.a. Ecstasy, in 4 top lists Check
  46. 311 -78

    Hans Westmar

    1933, in 1 top list Check
  47. 312 -68

    Hitlerjunge Quex

    1933 — a.k.a. Our Flags Lead Us Forward, in 1 top list Check
  48. 52 +242

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  49. 193 +109

    Las Hurdes

    1933 — a.k.a. Land Without Bread, in 12 top lists Check
  50. 423 +69

    She Done Him Wrong

    1933, in 8 top lists Check
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