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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W.R. - Misterije organizma
1971 — a.k.a. WR: Mysteries of the Organism, in 12 top lists Check -
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Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen
1970 — a.k.a. Even Dwarfs Started Small, in 3 top lists Check -
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2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle
1967 — a.k.a. Two or Three Things I Know About Her, in 10 top lists Check -
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Week End
1967 — a.k.a. Weekend, in 14 top lists Check -
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Vtáckovia, siroty a blázni
1969 — a.k.a. Birds, Orphans and Fools, in 3 top lists Check -
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Big Business
1929, in 5 top lists Check -
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In the Clutches of the Gang
1914, in 1 top list Check -
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Capricci
1969, in 1 top list Check -
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The Cat and the Canary
1927, in 5 top lists Check -
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Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
1972 — a.k.a. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, in 21 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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The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
1959, in 1 top list Check -
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A Hard Day's Night
1964, in 18 top lists Check -
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Der Tod der Maria Malibran
1972 — a.k.a. The Death of Maria Malibran, in 3 top lists Check -
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Horse Feathers
1932, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Navigator
1924, in 14 top lists Check -
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Work
1915 — a.k.a. The Paperhanger, in 1 top list Check -
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Monsieur Verdoux
1947, in 11 top lists Check -
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Sunnyside
1919, in 4 top lists Check -
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Beyond the Law
1968, in 2 top lists Check -
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Ro.Go.Pa.G.
1963, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Secret Cinema
1968, in 1 top list Check -
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Hail
1972 — a.k.a. Washington, B.C., in 1 top list Check -
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Mr. Freedom
1968, in 4 top lists Check -
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La chinoise
1967 — a.k.a. The Chinese, in 5 top lists Check -
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O Dreamland
1953, in 3 top lists Check -
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O Lucky Man!
1973, in 5 top lists Check -
240 new
Pioniere in Ingolstadt
1971 — a.k.a. Pioneers in Ingolstadt, in 1 top list Check -
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Modern Times
1936, in 30 top lists Check -
252 new
Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège
1933 — a.k.a. Zero for Conduct, in 17 top lists Check -
264 new
Sedmikrásky
1966 — a.k.a. Daisies, in 19 top lists Check -
266 new
Rani radovi
1969 — a.k.a. Early Works, in 2 top lists Check -
267 new
Horí, má panenko
1967 — a.k.a. The Firemen's Ball, in 11 top lists Check -
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Kristove roky
1967 — a.k.a. Crucial Years, in 3 top lists Check -
296 new
O slavnosti a hostech
1966 — a.k.a. A Report on the Party and Guests, in 5 top lists Check -
303 new
Zezowate szczescie
1960 — a.k.a. Bad Luck, in 5 top lists Check -
306 new
Le gros et le maigre
1961 — a.k.a. The Fat and the Lean, in 1 top list Check -
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Ssaki
1962 — a.k.a. Mammals, in 1 top list Check -
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Azyllo Muito Louco
1970 — a.k.a. A Very Crazy Asylum, in 1 top list Check -
318 new
La muerte de un burócrata
1966 — a.k.a. Death of a Bureaucrat, in 5 top lists Check -
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La fórmula secreta
1965 — a.k.a. The Secret Formula, in 2 top lists Check -
326 new
Macunaíma
1969 — a.k.a. Macunaima, in 5 top lists Check -
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La règle du jeu
1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check -
356 new
Ensayo de un crimen
1955 — a.k.a. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz, in 6 top lists Check -
357 new
Putney Swope
1969, in 3 top lists Check -
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De Düva: The Dove
1968, in 1 top list Check -
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Eika Katappa
1969, in 1 top list Check -
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Buraikan
1970 — a.k.a. The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan, in 1 top list Check -
383 new
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...
1964, in 37 top lists Check -
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex...
1972, in 2 top lists Check
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