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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Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter
1972 — a.k.a. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, in 3 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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Our Lady of the Sphere
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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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Running Shadow
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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Még kér a nép
1972 — a.k.a. Red Psalm, in 4 top lists Check -
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Particle Removal Series
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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Damon the Mower
1972, in 2 top lists Check -
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Life with Video
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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UFO's
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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Tout va bien
1972 — a.k.a. Tout Va Bien, in 4 top lists Check -
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Das Unheil
1972 — a.k.a. Havoc, in 1 top list Check -
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Red Squad
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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Winter Soldier
1972, in 3 top lists Check -
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Palestine
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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Robert Wall: Ex-FBI Agent
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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San Michele aveva un gallo
1972 — a.k.a. St. Michael Had a Rooster, in 2 top lists Check -
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La tecnica e il rito
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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Prata Palomares
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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Beauty Knows No Pain
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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The Casting
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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Postchi
1972 — a.k.a. The Postman, in 1 top list Check -
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex...
1972, in 2 top lists Check -
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Ultimo tango a Parigi
1972 — a.k.a. Last Tango in Paris, in 19 top lists Check -
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The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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Fritz the Cat
1972, in 4 top lists Check -
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Kama Sutra Rides Again
1971, in 1 top list Check -
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Room Service 75
1972, in 1 top list Check -
487 new
Frenzy
1972, in 7 top lists Check -
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Heat
1972, in 1 top list Check -
495 new
Deep Throat
1972, in 3 top lists Check -
565 new
Marjoe
1972, in 3 top lists Check -
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Roma
1972, in 8 top lists Check -
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Here Comes Every Body
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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Co-Co Puffs
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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Offon
1968, in 2 top lists Check
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