Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art (1974)
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Original 1974 version.
This presentation of the book is very similar to the official iCM-list version. The main difference (and basically the only difference) is that this version include an additional 22 entries (examples of non-subversive films) which the official list version excludes (also, the order of the entries is slightly different). In other words, this list includes ALL films mentioned regardless if they are subversive or not. However, some films (or "entries" to be more precise) are not on IMDb yet, or appear in the book with unidentifiable stills (see bottom of list description).
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. They are listed here by their FIRST appearance in the book regardless if the film is discussed more thoroughly at a later stage in the book.
#1-24: Acknowledgements, Preface and "The World View of Subversive Cinema"
#1-2: Front cover and Back cover (and also mentioned in Acknowledgements).
#25-193 :Part One - The Subversion of Form
#25-37: Revolutionary Film Avant-garde in Soviet Russia
#38-98: Aesthetic Rebels and Rebellious Clowns
#99-117: The Destruction of Time and Space
#118-131: The Destruction of Plot and Narrative
#132-141: The Assault of Montage
#142-160: The Triumph and Death of the Moving Camera
#161-162: The Devaluation of Language
#163-193: Straining towards the Limits
#194-386: Part Two - The Subversion of Content
#194: International Left and Revolutionary Cinema
#195-257: Left and Revolutionary Cinema: the West
#258-307: Left and Revolutionary Cinema: the East
#308-332: Left and Revolutionary Cinema: Third World
#333-338: East Germany: Against the West
#339-352: Nazi Cinema
#353-386: Secrets and Revelations
#387-599: Part Three - Forbidden Subjects of the Cinema
#387-403: The Visual Taboo
#404-423: Nudity
#424-468: Erotic and Pornographic Cinema
#469-508: Homosexuality and Other Variants
#509-514: The First Mystery: Birth
#515-547: The Ultimate Secret: Death
#548-575: The Attack on God
#576-599: Trance and Witchcraft
#600-621: Part Four - Towards a New Consciousness
#600-619: Counterculture and Avant-garde
#620-621: The Subversion of Subversion
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Films mentioned in the original version but not included in the revised version and/or iCM version:
Staroye i novoye (Old and New)
Alexander Nevsky
Battleship Potemkin
Ivan the Terrible Part 1
Ivan the Terrible Part 2
The Great Train Robbery
Das blaue Licht
Intolerance
Cleopatra
Der blaue Engel
Gone with the Wind
The Sound of Music
Journal d'un curé de campagne
If...
O Lucky Man!
The Graduate
Romeo and Juliet
Lebenszeichen
Love Story
Tout va bien
¡Que viva México!
The Second in Command (The Second Coming)
...for a total of 22 additional entries compared to the iCM-version.
"Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht" page 87; never explicitly mentioned but referred to when discussing Pere Portabella's "Cuadecuc, vampir". It IS mentioned in the revised version however.
"Der geile Wotan" is included here as it is mentioned and referred to, but is in fact a faulty entry (correctly replaced by the correct film "SS und Judenstern" in the revised iCM-version), page 254.
Unidentifiable Keystone Film circa 1915 (page 50-51, featured still) is in fact "In the Clutches of the Gang".
Unknown films/entries:
UFA Newsreel, 1940 (page 194)
Unidentified Nazi documentary footage (page 278)
Unidentified Nazi documentary footage (page 280)
Entries that aren't on IMDb:
Beaver Films (Stag, 1970, USA), page 221; revised version list the years as 1967-72.
The None Story (Stag, 1950s, USA), page 225; titled "The Nun's Story" in the revised version.
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1969 — a.k.a. Mickey Mouse in Vietnam, in 1 top list Check -
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Tup Tup
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Voyage en Boscavie
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Wszystko jest liczba
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Zid
1966 — a.k.a. The Wall, in 2 top lists Check
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