Film as a Subversive Art is a fully illustrated 1974 film history book by Amos Vogel with mini-essays on over 600 films.Anthology Film Archives
Summary The book was a catalogue of filmsFILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART: The End of Sexual Taboos — Spectacle Theater that broke aesthetic, sexual and ideological boundaries.Museum of the Moving Image
Selected examples Titicut Follies (1967) The War Game (1965) 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967) W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) She Done Him Wrong (1933) Pickpocket (1959) Belle de Jour (1967) Amos Vogel and Film as a Subversive Art Honored with Series of 16 Iconic Films - BWW TV WorldThe Canon of Subversion: Amos Vogel and the Films That Assailed the Art|The Village VoiceAmos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
Publication history The book was published by Random House, New York; it was re-printed in London by C.T. Editions with a new foreword and introduction by Scott MacDonald in 2005, and again in 2021 as a "remastered" edition by The Film Desk.
Film A documentary film of the same name about Vogel and directed by Paul Cronin was released in 2003.Video as a Subversive Art: The 48th San Francisco International Film Festival — Senses of Cinema
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