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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. 409 -150

    Jag är nyfiken - en film i blått

    1968 — a.k.a. I Am Curious (Blue), in 3 top lists Check
  2. 395 -289

    Coming Apart

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  3. 366 -156

    Le gai savoir

    1969 — a.k.a. Joy of Learning, in 1 top list Check
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    Kirsa Nicholina

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  5. 20 +562

    Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  6. 155 +40

    The Flicker

    1966, in 4 top lists Check
  7. 465 new

    Scheiss-Kerl

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  8. 172 -120

    Das Unheil

    1972 — a.k.a. Havoc, in 1 top list Check
  9. 301 +55

    Mandabi

    1968 — a.k.a. The Money Order, in 5 top lists Check
  10. 292 +191

    La fórmula secreta

    1965 — a.k.a. The Secret Formula, in 2 top lists Check
  11. 581 -263

    Lions Love

    1969 — a.k.a. Lions Love (... and Lies), in 2 top lists Check
  12. 186 -4

    Loin du Vietnam

    1967 — a.k.a. Far from Vietnam, in 3 top lists Check
  13. 470 +69

    Trash

    1970, in 3 top lists Check
  14. 322 -277

    Beauty Knows No Pain

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  15. 433 -427

    L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock

    1962 — a.k.a. The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, in 3 top lists Check
  16. 480 -444

    The Atom Strikes!

    1945, in 1 top list Check
  17. 572 -86

    Selective Service System

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  18. 54 +277

    Magritte ou La leçon de choses

    1960, in 1 top list Check
  19. 428 +96

    Take Me

    1968, in 1 top list Check
  20. 501 +33

    Vivre

    1958 — a.k.a. To Live, in 1 top list Check
  21. 571 -44

    Tarantula

    1962, in 1 top list Check
  22. 114 +444

    Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase

    1965, in 2 top lists Check
  23. 58 +533

    Le Monde de Paul Delvaux

    1946 — a.k.a. The World of Paul Delvaux, in 1 top list Check
  24. 169 +313

    The Secret Cinema

    1968, in 1 top list Check
  25. 66 +136

    Fotodeath

    1961, in 1 top list Check
  26. 4 +84

    Canyon

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  27. 405 +97

    Smart Alec

    1951, in 1 top list Check
  28. 231 -213

    Wsród ludzi

    1960 — a.k.a. Among Men, in 1 top list Check
  29. 217 +375

    Yippie

    1968, in 1 top list Check
  30. 455 -129

    Lovemaking

    1968, in 2 top lists Check
  31. 53 +467

    Runs Good

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  32. 194 +70

    Ice

    1970, in 2 top lists Check
  33. 367 -146

    The Golden Positions

    1970, in 2 top lists Check
  34. 3 +72

    Blue Moses

    1962, in 2 top lists Check
  35. 103 +52

    Eat

    1963, in 2 top lists Check
  36. 16 +438

    Relativity

    1966, in 1 top list Check
  37. 144 -90

    Beyond the Law

    1968, in 2 top lists Check
  38. 174 -59

    The Cry of Jazz

    1959, in 2 top lists Check
  39. 48 +109

    Tabeta hito

    1963, in 1 top list Check
  40. 597 -172

    The Pleasure Garden

    1953, in 2 top lists Check
  41. 308 +213

    Feine Spielwaren - Made in USA

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  42. 81 +509

    Work

    1915 — a.k.a. The Paperhanger, in 1 top list Check
  43. 5 +139

    Désordre

    1950 — a.k.a. Disorder, in 1 top list Check
  44. 77 +431

    Sort of a Commercial for an Icebag

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  45. 549 -281

    Images de la folie

    1950 — a.k.a. Images of Madness, in 1 top list Check
  46. 595 -108

    Kusama's Self-Obliteration

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  47. 178 -

    An Evil Hour

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  48. 55 +311

    Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur

    1949, in 2 top lists Check
  49. 506 -475

    Archeologia

    1968 — a.k.a. Archaeology, in 1 top list Check
  50. 427 +86

    En fremmed banker på

    1959 — a.k.a. A Stranger Knocks, in 2 top lists Check
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