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. 17 +530

    2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle

    1967 — a.k.a. Two or Three Things I Know About Her, in 10 top lists Check
  2. 19 +558

    Week End

    1967 — a.k.a. Weekend, in 14 top lists Check
  3. 41 +272

    The Liberation of the Mannique Mechanique

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  4. 91 +128

    God is Dog Spelled Backwards

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  5. 119 +329

    Csillagosok, katonák

    1967 — a.k.a. The Red and the White, in 8 top lists Check
  6. 121 +455

    Wavelength

    1967, in 9 top lists Check
  7. 136 +306

    Eisenbahn

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  8. 184 +41

    The Great Society

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  9. 186 -4

    Loin du Vietnam

    1967 — a.k.a. Far from Vietnam, in 3 top lists Check
  10. 192 -95

    La chinoise

    1967 — a.k.a. The Chinese, in 5 top lists Check
  11. 229 -221

    Ljubavni slucaj ili tragedija sluzbenice P.T.T.

    1967 — a.k.a. Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator, in 5 top lists Check
  12. 239 -51

    Horí, má panenko

    1967 — a.k.a. The Firemen's Ball, in 11 top lists Check
  13. 242 -128

    Kristove roky

    1967 — a.k.a. Crucial Years, in 3 top lists Check
  14. 253 -77

    Wszystko jest liczba

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  15. 349 +184

    Titicut Follies

    1967, in 9 top lists Check
  16. 394 -236

    Echoes of Silence

    1965, in 1 top list Check
  17. 401 -175

    Fuses

    1967, in 4 top lists Check
  18. 408 -150

    Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult

    1967 — a.k.a. I Am Curious (Yellow), in 5 top lists Check
  19. 425 +66

    L'ombre de la pomme

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  20. 434 -384

    Belle de jour

    1967 — a.k.a. Belle de Jour, in 21 top lists Check
  21. 441 -306

    Le départ

    1967 — a.k.a. The Departure, in 2 top lists Check
  22. 463 -37

    Portrait of Jason

    1967, in 11 top lists Check
  23. 469 +93

    Okasareta hakui

    1967 — a.k.a. Violated Angels, in 1 top list Check
  24. 514 -167

    Memorandum

    1966, in 1 top list Check
  25. 516 -23

    Sighet, Sighet

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  26. 531 -356

    Every Seventh Child

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  27. 542 -33

    Les souffrances d'un oeuf meurtri

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  28. 561 -9

    Vali

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  29. 562 +11

    Warrendale

    1967, in 7 top lists Check
  30. 592 -117

    Samadhi

    1967, in 2 top lists Check
  31. 595 -108

    Kusama's Self-Obliteration

    1967, in 1 top list Check
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