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. 101 +354

    Renaissance

    1963, in 2 top lists Check
  2. 120 +424

    Twice a Man

    1963, in 2 top lists Check
  3. 360 -25

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

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  4. 43 -16

    Aos

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  5. 264 +287

    Bez Naslova

    1964 — a.k.a. Without Title, in 1 top list Check
  6. 188 -107

    The Brig

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  7. 50 +50

    La cloche

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  8. 352 -201

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...

    1964, in 37 top lists Check
  9. 107 +60

    Empire

    1964, in 5 top lists Check
  10. 109 +236

    Une femme mariée: Suite de fragments d'un film...

    1964 — a.k.a. Une Femme Mariée, in 7 top lists Check
  11. 237 -144

    Fotel

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  12. 587 -352

    A Hard Day's Night

    1964, in 18 top lists Check
  13. 398 -273

    Käre John

    1964 — a.k.a. Dear John, in 2 top lists Check
  14. 266 +137

    Kazdy den odvahu

    1964 — a.k.a. Courage for Every Day, in 4 top lists Check
  15. 328 -5

    Love

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  16. 133 +238

    Naissant

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  17. 246 +140

    Nejvetsí prání

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  18. 306 +83

    O.K.

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  19. 559 -161

    Onibaba

    1964, in 13 top lists Check
  20. 522 new

    The Pawnbroker

    1964, in 5 top lists Check
  21. 337 -124

    Powszedni dzien gestapowca Schmidta

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  22. 115 -67

    Prima della rivoluzione

    1964 — a.k.a. Before the Revolution, in 8 top lists Check
  23. 138 +363

    Sleep

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  24. 523 +64

    Suna no onna

    1964 — a.k.a. Woman in the Dunes, in 22 top lists Check
  25. 529 -497

    Archandel Gabriel a paní Husa

    1965, in 1 top list Check
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