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. 367 -146

    The Golden Positions

    1970, in 2 top lists Check
  2. 415 -13

    Orange

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  3. 479 -472

    The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes

    1971, in 9 top lists Check
  4. 547 -525

    The Andromeda Strain

    1971, in 3 top lists Check
  5. 392 -329

    Black Pudding

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  6. 298 -220

    Brazil: A Report on Torture

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  7. 578 -499

    Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric...

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  8. 582 -402

    Changing

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  9. 440 -337

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  10. 130 -25

    Color Film

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  11. 372 -116

    Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês

    1971 — a.k.a. How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman, in 3 top lists Check
  12. 112 +444

    Cuadecuc, vampir

    1971, in 4 top lists Check
  13. 288 -171

    Culebra

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  14. 386 -254

    Il Decameron

    1971 — a.k.a. The Decameron, in 3 top lists Check
  15. 289 -124

    Emitaï

    1971, in 4 top lists Check
  16. 178 -

    An Evil Hour

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  17. 583 -399

    Fata Morgana

    1971, in 4 top lists Check
  18. 160 +39

    For Example: A Critique of Never

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  19. 73 +136

    The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  20. 350 +176

    Geschichten vom Kübelkind

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  21. 586 -371

    Glen and Randa

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  22. 196 +67

    Gonna Give You My Love

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  23. 182 +48

    Der Hamburger Aufstand Oktober 1923

    1971 — a.k.a. The Hamburg Uprising of 1923, in 1 top list Check
  24. 317 -78

    The Hellstrom Chronicle

    1971, in 3 top lists Check
  25. 430 -184

    Holding

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  26. 471 +110

    Hvorfor gør de det?

    1971 — a.k.a. Why Do They Do It?, in 1 top list Check
  27. 340 -80

    Ich liebe dich, ich töte dich

    1971 — a.k.a. I Love You, I Kill You, in 1 top list Check
  28. 489 -211

    Interviews with My Lai Veterans

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  29. 342 -41

    Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit

    1971 — a.k.a. Land of Silence and Darkness, in 5 top lists Check
  30. 376 -70

    The Last Picture Show

    1971, in 21 top lists Check
  31. 390 -57

    Ljubite se, ne ratujte

    1971 — a.k.a. Make Love, Not War, in 1 top list Check
  32. 438 -356

    Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal

    1971 — a.k.a. Don't Deliver Us from Evil, in 2 top lists Check
  33. 373 -39

    Les mâles

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  34. 345 -4

    Malkat Hakvish

    1971 — a.k.a. The Highway Queen, in 1 top list Check
  35. 458 -120

    The Man from Onan

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  36. 446 -317

    Morte a Venezia

    1971 — a.k.a. Death in Venice, in 13 top lists Check
  37. 185 +182

    The Murder of Fred Hampton

    1971, in 2 top lists Check
  38. 493 -118

    Necrology

    1971, in 2 top lists Check
  39. 454 -172

    Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die...

    1971 — a.k.a. It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, in 1 top list Check
  40. 149 +247

    Olympiad

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  41. 209 +238

    Pioniere in Ingolstadt

    1971 — a.k.a. Pioneers in Ingolstadt, in 1 top list Check
  42. 222 +295

    Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von...

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  43. 205 +229

    Punishment Park

    1971, in 5 top lists Check
  44. 127 +326

    La région centrale

    1971, in 8 top lists Check
  45. 208 +251

    The Revolutionary Was a Cop: Tommy the Traveler

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  46. 53 +467

    Runs Good

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  47. 569 -93

    Saturday Morning

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  48. 417 +62

    School Girl

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  49. 418 +66

    The Secrete of Life

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  50. 461 -92

    Le souffle au coeur

    1971 — a.k.a. Murmur of the Heart, in 6 top lists Check
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