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. 484 -346

    Les diaboliques

    1955 — a.k.a. Diabolique, in 21 top lists Check
  2. 32 +53

    Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

    1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 30 top lists Check
  3. 557 -179

    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check
  4. 52 +242

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  5. 482 -414

    Le sang des bêtes

    1949 — a.k.a. Blood of the Beasts, in 10 top lists Check
  6. 565 -286

    Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    1956, in 19 top lists Check
  7. 164 +255

    Persona

    1966, in 25 top lists Check
  8. 364 +67

    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
  9. 479 -472

    The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes

    1971, in 9 top lists Check
  10. 550 -493

    The Big Shave

    1967, in 3 top lists Check
  11. 37 +55

    The Cat and the Canary

    1927, in 5 top lists Check
  12. 112 +444

    Cuadecuc, vampir

    1971, in 4 top lists Check
  13. 435 -365

    La fée sanguinaire

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  14. 566 -362

    Freaks

    1932, in 19 top lists Check
  15. 570 +16

    Häxan

    1922, in 17 top lists Check
  16. 433 -427

    L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock

    1962 — a.k.a. The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, in 3 top lists Check
  17. 438 -356

    Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal

    1971 — a.k.a. Don't Deliver Us from Evil, in 2 top lists Check
  18. 535 -174

    Matka Joanna od Aniolów

    1961 — a.k.a. Mother Joan of the Angels, in 7 top lists Check
  19. 240 -42

    Muha

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  20. 559 -161

    Onibaba

    1964, in 13 top lists Check
  21. 560 -103

    Repulsion

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  22. 252 -21

    Ruka

    1965 — a.k.a. The Hand, in 7 top lists Check
  23. 38 +74

    Spalovac mrtvol

    1969 — a.k.a. The Cremator, in 12 top lists Check
  24. 365 +190

    Vampyr

    1932, in 18 top lists Check
  25. 558 +3

    Village of the Damned

    1960, in 5 top lists Check
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