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. 4 +84

    Canyon

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  2. 5 +139

    Désordre

    1950 — a.k.a. Disorder, in 1 top list Check
  3. 11 +308

    Living in a Reversed World

    1958, in 1 top list Check
  4. 13 +368

    Nothing Happened This Morning

    1965, in 1 top list Check
  5. 20 +562

    Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  6. 34 +55

    Capricci

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  7. 41 +272

    The Liberation of the Mannique Mechanique

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  8. 42 +404

    De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel

    1962 — a.k.a. The Reality of Karel Appel, in 1 top list Check
  9. 45 +141

    Fingerübung

    1968, in 1 top list Check
  10. 47 +109

    Spiste horisonter

    1950 — a.k.a. Eaten Horizonts, in 1 top list Check
  11. 48 +109

    Tabeta hito

    1963, in 1 top list Check
  12. 49 +37

    Le cadeau

    1961 — a.k.a. The Present, in 1 top list Check
  13. 50 +50

    La cloche

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  14. 51 +172

    Aguaespejo granadino

    1955 — a.k.a. Water-Mirror of Granada, in 4 top lists Check
  15. 54 +277

    Magritte ou La leçon de choses

    1960, in 1 top list Check
  16. 58 +533

    Le Monde de Paul Delvaux

    1946 — a.k.a. The World of Paul Delvaux, in 1 top list Check
  17. 65 -4

    Black and White Burlesque

    1960, in 1 top list Check
  18. 66 +136

    Fotodeath

    1961, in 1 top list Check
  19. 67 +511

    What, Who, How

    1957, in 1 top list Check
  20. 68 +54

    En Dag I Staden

    1956, in 1 top list Check
  21. 70 +178

    Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York'

    1960, in 1 top list Check
  22. 76 +424

    Skullduggery

    1962, in 1 top list Check
  23. 77 +431

    Sort of a Commercial for an Icebag

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  24. 85 -74

    Aktion 540

    1968, in 1 top list Check
  25. 88 +61

    The Door in the Wall

    1956, in 1 top list Check
  26. 90 +126

    London to Brighton in Four Minutes

    1952, in 1 top list Check
  27. 91 +128

    God is Dog Spelled Backwards

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  28. 94 +160

    Het huis

    1961 — a.k.a. The House, in 1 top list Check
  29. 95 +177

    In Marin County

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  30. 100 +327

    Kieran's Kaleidoscope: Power of Plants

    1949, in 1 top list Check
  31. 102 +402

    Smoking

    1966, in 1 top list Check
  32. 104 -94

    Akran

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  33. 110 +37

    Don Giovanni

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  34. 114 +444

    Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase

    1965, in 2 top lists Check
  35. 126 +345

    Running Shadow

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  36. 130 -25

    Color Film

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  37. 131 +54

    Un film

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  38. 133 +238

    Naissant

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  39. 134 +277

    Particle Removal Series

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  40. 135 +262

    Im Schönsten Wiesengrunde

    1969 — a.k.a. On a Most Beautiful Meadow, in 1 top list Check
  41. 136 +306

    Eisenbahn

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  42. 137 +333

    Runaway

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  43. 142 -91

    Bells of Atlantis

    1952, in 2 top lists Check
  44. 144 -90

    Beyond the Law

    1968, in 2 top lists Check
  45. 146 -93

    Between Two Worlds

    1952, in 1 top list Check
  46. 149 +247

    Olympiad

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  47. 153 -89

    Black TV

    1968, in 2 top lists Check
  48. 160 +39

    For Example: A Critique of Never

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  49. 163 +152

    Life with Video

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  50. 166 +279

    Razor Blades

    1968, in 1 top list Check
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