Film as a Subversive Art
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Film as a Subversive Art is a 1974 film history book by Amos Vogel with mini-essays on over 600 'subversive', surreal and countercultural films. Curiously absent in the book are the films by Guy Debord and the Lettrist films. View the complete list here.
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Epigraph
- "But that the white eyelid of the screen reflect its proper light, the universe would go up in flames." — Luis Buñuel
- “Your order is meaningless, my chaos is significant.” — Nathanel West
- “I like my movies made in Hollywood.” — Richard Nixon
- “Behind the initiation to sensual pleasure, there loom narcotics.” — Pope Paul VII
- “By the displacement of an atom, a world may be shaken.” — Oscar Wilde
- “Film is the greatest teacher, because it teaches not only through the brain, but through the whole body.” — Vsevolod Pudovkin
- “The cinema implies a total inversion of values, a complete upheaval of optics, of perspective and logic. It is more exciting than phosphorus, more captivating than love.” — Antonin Artaud
- "'Don't go on multiplying the mysteries,’ Unwin said, ‘they should be kept simple. Bear in mind Poe's purloined letter, bear in mind Zangwill’s locked room.’ ‘Or made complex,’ replied Dunraven. ‘Bear in mind the universe.’" — Jorge Luis Borges
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List of films mentioned
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Table of contents
- The Film Experience
- The World View of Subversive Cinema
- Part One: Weapons of Subversion, The Subversion of Form
- I. The Revolutionary Film Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia
- II. Aesthetic Rebels and Rebellious Clowns
- a. Expressionism: The Cinema of Unrest
- b. Surrealism: The Cinema of Shock
- c. Dada and Pop: Anti-Art?
- d. The Comic Tradition
- III. The Destruction of Time and Space
- IV. The Destruction of Plot and Narrative
- V. The Assault on Montage
- VI. The Triumph and Death of the Moving Camera
- a. The Camera Moves
- b. Minimal Cinema
- VII. The Devaluation of Language
- VIII. Straining towards the Limits
- Part Two: Weapons of Subversion, The Subversion of Content
- I. International Left and Revolutionary Cinema
- a. The West: Rebels, Maoists and the New Godard
- b. Subversion in Eastern Europe: Aesopian Metaphors
- c. The Third World: A New Cinema
- d. East Germany: Against the West
- II. The Terrible Poetry of Nazi Cinema
- III. Secrets and Revelations
- Part Three: Weapons of Subversion, Forbidden Subjects of the Cinema
- I. The Power of Visual Taboo
- II. The Attack on Puritanism: Nudity
- III. The End of Sexual Taboos: Erotic and Pornographic Cinema
- IV. The End of Sexual Taboos: Homosexuality and other Variants
- V. The First Mystery: Birth
- VI. The Ultimate Secret: Death
- a. Death
- b. Concentration Camps
- VII. The Attack on God: Blasphemy and Anti-clericalism
- VIII. Trance and Witchcraft
- Part Four: Towards a New Consciousness
- I. Counterculture and Avant-Garde
- II. The Subversion of Subversion
- III. The Eternal Subversion
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