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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Blow-Up
1966, in 20 top lists Check -
38 +74
Spalovac mrtvol
1969 — a.k.a. The Cremator, in 13 top lists Check -
98 +176
The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957, in 10 top lists Check -
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Touch of Evil
1958, in 30 top lists Check -
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Rope
1948, in 10 top lists Check -
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Persona
1966, in 25 top lists Check -
172 -120
Das Unheil
1972 — a.k.a. Havoc, in 1 top list Check -
205 +229
Punishment Park
1971, in 5 top lists Check -
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Prata Palomares
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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Vertigo
1958, in 42 top lists Check -
364 +67
Psycho
1960, in 39 top lists Check -
451 -245
Frenzy
1972, in 7 top lists Check -
469 +93
Okasareta hakui
1967 — a.k.a. Violated Angels, in 1 top list Check -
512 -367
Daleká cesta
1949 — a.k.a. Distant Journey, in 4 top lists Check -
523 +64
Suna no onna
1964 — a.k.a. Woman in the Dunes, in 22 top lists Check -
547 -525
The Andromeda Strain
1971, in 3 top lists Check -
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Repulsion
1965, in 17 top lists Check -
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Straw Dogs
1971, in 11 top lists Check
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