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. 361 -188

    Events

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  2. 488 -276

    Germ and Chemical Warfare

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  3. 400 -237

    Electrosex 1975

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  4. 20 +562

    Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  5. 363 -122

    Hiroshima genbaku no kiroru

    1970 — a.k.a. Hiroshima: A Document of the Atomic Bombing, in 1 top list Check
  6. 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
  7. 200 +216

    Le peuple et ses fusils

    1970 — a.k.a. The People and Their Guns, in 1 top list Check
  8. 226 +297

    Susan After the Sugar Harvest

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  9. 95 +177

    In Marin County

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  10. 259 +120

    Nije ptica sve sto leti

    1970 — a.k.a. Not Everything That Flies Is a Bird, in 1 top list Check
  11. 77 +431

    Sort of a Commercial for an Icebag

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  12. 590 -181

    Paradise Now

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  13. 131 +54

    Un film

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  14. 419 +71

    Sex

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  15. 403 -160

    A History of the Blue Movie

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  16. 177 -16

    8 Flags for 99¢

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  17. 456 -101

    Mona: The Virgin Nymph

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  18. 572 -86

    Selective Service System

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  19. 176 -42

    Wilmington

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  20. 291 -53

    Os Herdeiros

    1970 — a.k.a. The Inheritors, in 1 top list Check
  21. 574 -545

    Apotheosis

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  22. 303 +134

    ¡Qué hacer!

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  23. 346 +12

    Moonwalk One

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  24. 412 +129

    Tropic of Cancer

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  25. 4 +84

    Canyon

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  26. 485 -317

    The End of One

    1973, in 1 top list Check
  27. 464 +41

    Sodoma

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  28. 281 -267

    Azyllo Muito Louco

    1970 — a.k.a. A Very Crazy Asylum, in 1 top list Check
  29. 380 -183

    Fly

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  30. 424 +126

    Unfolding

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  31. 201 +228

    Pravda

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  32. 411 +30

    Stille dage i Clichy

    1970 — a.k.a. Quiet Days in Clichy, in 1 top list Check
  33. 110 +37

    Don Giovanni

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  34. 594 -65

    This Is It

    1970, in 2 top lists Check
  35. 351 +127

    Buraikan

    1970 — a.k.a. The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan, in 1 top list Check
  36. 214 +271

    British Sounds

    1970 — a.k.a. See You at Mao, in 2 top lists Check
  37. 296 -76

    Os deuses E Os Mortos

    1970 — a.k.a. Of Gods and the Undead, in 1 top list Check
  38. 374 +62

    The Owl and the Pussycat

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  39. 388 -74

    The Lickerish Quartet

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  40. 194 +70

    Ice

    1970, in 2 top lists Check
  41. 470 +69

    Trash

    1970, in 3 top lists Check
  42. 161 +178

    Tôkyô sensô sengo hiwa

    1970 — a.k.a. The Man Who Put His Will on Film, in 3 top lists Check
  43. 18 +576

    Zorns Lemma

    1970, in 5 top lists Check
  44. 8 +164

    Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen

    1970 — a.k.a. Even Dwarfs Started Small, in 3 top lists Check
  45. 402 -185

    The Go-Between

    1971, in 8 top lists Check
  46. 478 -264

    Gimme Shelter

    1970, in 8 top lists Check
  47. 330 -228

    Le genou de Claire

    1970 — a.k.a. Claire's Knee, in 7 top lists Check
  48. 596 -7

    Woodstock

    1970, in 13 top lists Check
  49. 375 -184

    Five Easy Pieces

    1970, in 13 top lists Check
  50. 397 -290

    Il conformista

    1970 — a.k.a. The Conformist, in 20 top lists Check
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