Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art

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"Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored." So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago are still relevant today, and readily accessible in this classic volume. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, Film as a Subversive Art analyzes how aesthetic, sexual, and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions."

This list contains all movies in the revised version from 2021.

Included in this list are movies:
1. with dedicated texts.
2. shown in movie stills.
3. mentioned otherwise as an example of subversive cinema in the context of the text it is mentioned in.

Excluded from this list are movies that are mentioned in any other way than an example of subversive cinema.

The movies are sorted by appearance in the book. Some movies appear multiple times. In that case, the preferred position is the dedicated text, then a movie still and lastly a mention.

The book is divided into parts:
Introduction (#1 - #20)
Part 1 - Weapons of Subversion: The Subversion of Form (#21 - #170)
Part 2 - Weapons of Subversion: The Subversion of Content (#171 - #355)
Part 3 - Weapons of Subversion: Forbidden Subjects of the Cinema (#356 - #572)
Part 4 - Towards a New Consciousness (#573 - #598)
#599 is the back cover.

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  1. 1 +71

    Blow-Up

    1966, in 20 top lists Check
  2. 38 +74

    Spalovac mrtvol

    1969 — a.k.a. The Cremator, in 12 top lists Check
  3. 98 +176

    The Incredible Shrinking Man

    1957, in 10 top lists Check
  4. 118 +418

    Touch of Evil

    1958, in 30 top lists Check
  5. 122 +346

    Rope

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  6. 164 +255

    Persona

    1966, in 25 top lists Check
  7. 172 -120

    Das Unheil

    1972 — a.k.a. Havoc, in 1 top list Check
  8. 205 +229

    Punishment Park

    1971, in 5 top lists Check
  9. 302 +126

    Prata Palomares

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  10. 357 +202

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  11. 364 +67

    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
  12. 451 -245

    Frenzy

    1972, in 7 top lists Check
  13. 469 +93

    Okasareta hakui

    1967 — a.k.a. Violated Angels, in 1 top list Check
  14. 512 -367

    Daleká cesta

    1949 — a.k.a. Distant Journey, in 4 top lists Check
  15. 523 +64

    Suna no onna

    1964 — a.k.a. Woman in the Dunes, in 22 top lists Check
  16. 547 -525

    The Andromeda Strain

    1971, in 3 top lists Check
  17. 560 -103

    Repulsion

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  18. 598 -84

    Straw Dogs

    1971, in 11 top lists Check
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Last updated on Mar 26, 2024 by joachimt; source