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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Viva la muerte
1971 — a.k.a. Long Live Death, in 2 top lists Check -
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Runs Good
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The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam
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Cuadecuc, vampir
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La région centrale
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Color Film
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Olympiad
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For Example: A Critique of Never
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An Evil Hour
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Der Hamburger Aufstand Oktober 1923
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The Murder of Fred Hampton
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Gonna Give You My Love
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Punishment Park
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The Revolutionary Was a Cop: Tommy the Traveler
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Pioniere in Ingolstadt
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The Woman's Film
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Three Lives
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Uloga moje porodice u svjetskoj revoluciji
1971 — a.k.a. The Role of My Family in the Revolution, in 1 top list Check -
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Culebra
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Emitaï
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Brazil: A Report on Torture
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The Hellstrom Chronicle
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Malkat Hakvish
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Wie ich ein Neger wurde
1971 — a.k.a. How I Became a Negro, in 1 top list Check -
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Ich liebe dich, ich töte dich
1971 — a.k.a. I Love You, I Kill You, in 1 top list Check -
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Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit
1971 — a.k.a. Land of Silence and Darkness, in 5 top lists Check -
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Fata Morgana
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Geschichten vom Kübelkind
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The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
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A Clockwork Orange
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The Golden Positions
1970, in 2 top lists Check -
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Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês
1971 — a.k.a. How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman, in 3 top lists Check -
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Les mâles
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The Last Picture Show
1971, in 21 top lists Check -
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Il Decameron
1971 — a.k.a. The Decameron, in 3 top lists Check -
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Ljubite se, ne ratujte
1971 — a.k.a. Make Love, Not War, in 1 top list Check -
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Black Pudding
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Orange
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School Girl
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The Secrete of Life
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Tales
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Holding
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Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal
1971 — a.k.a. Don't Deliver Us from Evil, in 2 top lists Check -
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Morte a Venezia
1971 — a.k.a. Death in Venice, in 13 top lists Check -
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Tomato Kecchappu Kôtei
1971 — a.k.a. Emperor Tomato Ketchup, in 2 top lists Check -
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Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die...
1971 — a.k.a. It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, in 1 top list Check -
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The Man from Onan
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