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. 360 -25

    6/64: Mama und Papa (Materialaktion Otto Mühl)

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  2. 574 -545

    Apotheosis

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  3. 462 -50

    Besonders wertvoll

    1968, in 1 top list Check
  4. 264 +287

    Bez Naslova

    1964 — a.k.a. Without Title, in 1 top list Check
  5. 481 -422

    Birth and Death

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  6. 578 -499

    Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric...

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  7. 329 -238

    The Casting

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  8. 582 -402

    Changing

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  9. 130 -25

    Color Film

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  10. 393 -284

    The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  11. 42 +404

    De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel

    1962 — a.k.a. The Reality of Karel Appel, in 1 top list Check
  12. 168 -40

    Dead Movie

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  13. 468 +54

    Die Unterdrückung der Frau ist vor allem an dem...

    1970 — a.k.a. The Oppression of the Woman Is Especially Seen in the Attitude of the Women Themselves, in 1 top list Check
  14. 136 +306

    Eisenbahn

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  15. 400 -237

    Electrosex 1975

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  16. 485 -317

    The End of One

    1973, in 1 top list Check
  17. 399 -225

    Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure

    1929, in 1 top list Check
  18. 531 -356

    Every Seventh Child

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  19. 131 +54

    Un film

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  20. 237 -144

    Fotel

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  21. 66 +136

    Fotodeath

    1961, in 1 top list Check
  22. 91 +128

    God is Dog Spelled Backwards

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  23. 184 +41

    The Great Society

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  24. 181 +47

    Hail

    1972 — a.k.a. Washington, B.C., in 1 top list Check
  25. 182 +48

    Der Hamburger Aufstand Oktober 1923

    1971 — a.k.a. The Hamburg Uprising of 1923, in 1 top list Check
  26. 555 -315

    Here Comes Every Body

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  27. 363 -122

    Hiroshima genbaku no kiroru

    1970 — a.k.a. Hiroshima: A Document of the Atomic Bombing, in 1 top list Check
  28. 403 -160

    A History of the Blue Movie

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  29. 183 +62

    Hog Calling Blues

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  30. 476 new

    Hortobágy

    1937 — a.k.a. Life on the Hortobagy, in 1 top list Check
  31. 414 -94

    Huge Pupils

    1968, in 2 top lists Check
  32. 135 +262

    Im Schönsten Wiesengrunde

    1969 — a.k.a. On a Most Beautiful Meadow, in 1 top list Check
  33. 31 new

    In the Clutches of the Gang

    1914, in 1 top list Check
  34. 262 new

    Jan Palach

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  35. 390 -57

    Ljubite se, ne ratujte

    1971 — a.k.a. Make Love, Not War, in 1 top list Check
  36. 425 +66

    L'ombre de la pomme

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  37. 345 -4

    Malkat Hakvish

    1971 — a.k.a. The Highway Queen, in 1 top list Check
  38. 458 -120

    The Man from Onan

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  39. 245 +84

    Maszyna

    1963 — a.k.a. The Machine, in 1 top list Check
  40. 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
  41. 133 +238

    Naissant

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  42. 381 +3

    No. 4

    1966, in 1 top list Check
  43. 536 -156

    A Note from Above

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  44. 299 +84

    Now

    1965, in 5 top lists Check
  45. 149 +247

    Olympiad

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  46. 415 -13

    Orange

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  47. 359 +46

    Otmar Bauer Zeigt

    1969 — a.k.a. Vomit-Action, in 1 top list Check
  48. 200 +216

    Le peuple et ses fusils

    1970 — a.k.a. The People and Their Guns, in 1 top list Check
  49. 72 +348

    Pianissimo

    1963, in 1 top list Check
  50. 569 -93

    Saturday Morning

    1971, in 1 top list Check
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