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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Canyon
1970, in 1 top list Check -
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Désordre
1950 — a.k.a. Disorder, in 1 top list Check -
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Living in a Reversed World
1958, in 1 top list Check -
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Nothing Happened This Morning
1965, in 1 top list Check -
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Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology
1970, in 1 top list Check -
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Capricci
1969, in 1 top list Check -
51 new
The Liberation of the Mannique Mechanique
1967, in 1 top list Check -
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De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel
1962 — a.k.a. The Reality of Karel Appel, in 1 top list Check -
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Fingerübung
1968, in 1 top list Check -
57 new
Spiste horisonter
1950 — a.k.a. Eaten Horizonts, in 1 top list Check -
58 new
Tabeta hito
1963, in 1 top list Check -
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Le cadeau
1961 — a.k.a. The Present, in 1 top list Check -
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La cloche
1964, in 1 top list Check -
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Aguaespejo granadino
1955 — a.k.a. Water-Mirror of Granada, in 4 top lists Check -
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Magritte ou La leçon de choses
1960, in 1 top list Check -
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Le Monde de Paul Delvaux
1946 — a.k.a. The World of Paul Delvaux, in 1 top list Check -
78 new
Black and White Burlesque
1960, in 1 top list Check -
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En Dag I Staden
1956, in 1 top list Check -
80 new
Fotodeath
1961, in 1 top list Check -
81 new
What, Who, How
1957, in 1 top list Check -
83 new
Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York'
1960, in 1 top list Check -
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Skullduggery
1962, in 1 top list Check -
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Sort of a Commercial for an Icebag
1970, in 1 top list Check -
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Aktion 540
1968, in 1 top list Check -
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The Door in the Wall
1956, in 1 top list Check -
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London to Brighton in Four Minutes
1952, in 1 top list Check -
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God is Dog Spelled Backwards
1967, in 1 top list Check -
109 new
Het huis
1961 — a.k.a. The House, in 1 top list Check -
110 new
In Marin County
1970, in 1 top list Check -
115 new
Kieran's Kaleidoscope: Power of Plants
1949, in 1 top list Check -
117 new
Smoking
1966, in 1 top list Check -
122 new
Akran
1969, in 1 top list Check -
127 new
Don Giovanni
1970, in 1 top list Check -
131 new
Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase
1965, in 2 top lists Check -
148 new
Running Shadow
1972, in 1 top list Check -
151 new
Color Film
1971, in 1 top list Check -
152 new
Un film
1970, in 1 top list Check -
155 new
Naissant
1964, in 1 top list Check -
156 new
Particle Removal Series
1972, in 1 top list Check -
157 new
Im Schönsten Wiesengrunde
1969 — a.k.a. On a Most Beautiful Meadow, in 1 top list Check -
158 new
Eisenbahn
1967, in 1 top list Check -
159 new
Runaway
1969, in 1 top list Check -
165 new
Razor Blades
1968, in 1 top list Check -
167 new
Bells of Atlantis
1952, in 2 top lists Check -
169 new
Beyond the Law
1968, in 2 top lists Check -
171 new
Between Two Worlds
1952, in 1 top list Check -
174 new
Olympiad
1971, in 1 top list Check -
177 new
Black TV
1968, in 2 top lists Check -
184 new
For Example: A Critique of Never
1971, in 1 top list Check -
187 new
Life with Video
1972, in 1 top list Check
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