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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    Entr'acte

    1924, in 9 top lists Check
  2. 598 -84

    Straw Dogs

    1971, in 11 top lists Check
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    The Pleasure Garden

    1953, in 2 top lists Check
  4. 596 -7

    Woodstock

    1970, in 12 top lists Check
  5. 594 -65

    This Is It

    1970, in 2 top lists Check
  6. 593 -160

    Pull My Daisy

    1959, in 3 top lists Check
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    Lapis

    1966, in 2 top lists Check
  8. 587 -352

    A Hard Day's Night

    1964, in 18 top lists Check
  9. 586 -371

    Glen and Randa

    1971, in 1 top list Check
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    Free Radicals

    1958, in 7 top lists Check
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    Offon

    1968, in 2 top lists Check
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    Fata Morgana

    1971, in 4 top lists Check
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    Tretya meshchanskaya

    1927 — a.k.a. Bed and Sofa, in 6 top lists Check
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    Francesco, giullare di Dio

    1950 — a.k.a. The Flowers of St. Francis, in 10 top lists Check
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    Harry Munter

    1969, in 1 top list Check
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    Häxan

    1922, in 17 top lists Check
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    Freaks

    1932, in 19 top lists Check
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    Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    1956, in 19 top lists Check
  19. 564 -10

    Les vampires

    1915, in 14 top lists Check
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    Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

    1954, in 4 top lists Check
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    Warrendale

    1967, in 7 top lists Check
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    Repulsion

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
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    Onibaba

    1964, in 13 top lists Check
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    Village of the Damned

    1960, in 5 top lists Check
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    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check
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    Khaneh siah ast

    1963 — a.k.a. The House Is Black, in 13 top lists Check
  27. 554 new

    La grande bouffe

    1973 — a.k.a. La Grande Bouffe, in 7 top lists Check
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    Ohayô

    1959 — a.k.a. Good Morning, in 9 top lists Check
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    The Big Shave

    1967, in 3 top lists Check
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    Vredens dag

    1943 — a.k.a. Day of Wrath, in 13 top lists Check
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    The Andromeda Strain

    1971, in 3 top lists Check
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    Nazarín

    1959, in 8 top lists Check
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    Viridiana

    1961, in 24 top lists Check
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    Simón del desierto

    1965 — a.k.a. Simon of the Desert, in 5 top lists Check
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    The Pilgrim

    1923, in 6 top lists Check
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    Roma

    1972, in 8 top lists Check
  37. 540 -42

    The Sin of Jesus

    1962, in 1 top list Check
  38. 538 -153

    La religieuse

    1966 — a.k.a. The Nun, in 3 top lists Check
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    Matka Joanna od Aniolów

    1961 — a.k.a. Mother Joan of the Angels, in 7 top lists Check
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    L'amore

    1948, in 4 top lists Check
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    Marjoe

    1972, in 3 top lists Check
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    L'âge d'or

    1930 — a.k.a. L'Age d'Or, in 16 top lists Check
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    Ro.Go.Pa.G.

    1963, in 5 top lists Check
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    La voie lactée

    1969 — a.k.a. The Milky Way, in 4 top lists Check
  45. 525 new

    La strada

    1954, in 21 top lists Check
  46. 524 new

    Martin Luther

    1953, in 1 top list Check
  47. 523 +64

    Suna no onna

    1964 — a.k.a. Woman in the Dunes, in 22 top lists Check
  48. 522 new

    The Pawnbroker

    1964, in 5 top lists Check
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    Jules et Jim

    1962 — a.k.a. Jules and Jim, in 21 top lists Check
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    Nóz w wodzie

    1962 — a.k.a. Knife in the Water, in 14 top lists Check
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