Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art (1974)

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Original 1974 version.

Films are sorted by the order they appear in the book.

In some cases, the same film is discussed several times in different sections throughout the book (Blowup, 2001: A Space Odyssey, L'âge d'or, W.R. etc).

#1-24: Acknowledgements, Preface and "The World View of Subversive Cinema"

#25-189 :Part One - The Subversion of Form

#25-37: Revolutionary Film Avant-garde in Soviet Russia
#38-97: Aesthetic Rebels and Rebellious Clowns
#98-116: The Destruction of Time and Space
#117-128: The Destruction of Plot and Narrative
#129-138: The Assault of Montage
#139-157: The Triumph and Death of the Moving Camera
#158-159: The Devaluation of Language
#160-189: Straining towards the Limits

#190-378: Part Two - The Subversion of Content

#190: International Left and Revolutionary Cinema
#191-253: Left and Revolutionary Cinema: the West
#254-302: Left and Revolutionary Cinema: the East
#303-326: Left and Revolutionary Cinema: Third World
#327-332: East Germany: Against the West
#333-344: Nazi Cinema
#345-378: Secrets and Revelations

#379-586: Part Three - Forbidden Subjects of the Cinema

#379-395: The Visual Taboo
#396-413: Nudity
#414-457: Erotic and Pornographic Cinema
#458-497: Homosexuality and Other Variants
#498-503: The First Mystery: Birth
#504-534: The Ultimate Secret: Death
#535-562: The Attack on God
#563-586: Trance and Witchcraft

#587-608: Part Four - Towards a New Consciousness

#587-606: Counterculture and Avant-garde
#607-608: The Subversion of Subversion

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Ivan the Terrible Part 2
The Boston Strangler (page 78)
Prune. Flat. (page 82)
Soft Rain (page 100)
Hortobágy (page 262)
The Pawnbroker, Martin Luther (1953), La Strada (page 283)
La grande bouffe (page 297)

[Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht, page 87]

Unidentifiable Keystone Film circa 1915 (page 50-51)
Gone With the Wind & The Sound of Music (page 84)
Intolerance & Cleopatra (page 176)
UFA Newsreel, 1940 (page 194)
The Graduate & Romeo and Juliet (1968) (page 204)
Unidentified Nazi documentary footage (page 278)
Unidentified Nazi documentary footage (page 280)

Missing from IMDb:
Acupunctural Anaesthesia (Peking Television, 1971, China), page 159, 181-82
Beaver Films (Stag, 1970, USA), page 221
Demonstrations (Strahov) (Anonymous, 1967, Czechoslovakia), page 146
Meditation on the End of Human Life (Posledni Veci Cloveka) (Jovan Kubicek, 1967, Czechoslovakia), page 272
The None Story (Stag, 1950s, USA), page 225
The Race (William Copland, 1970, Australia), page 276
What Goes On At Sex Therapy Clinics (Community Medical Cable Casting, 1972, USA), page 234

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