Film as a Subversive Art


Film as a Subversive Art is a fully illustrated 1974 film history book by Amos Vogel with mini-essays on over 600 films.

Summary

The book was a catalogue of films that broke aesthetic, sexual and ideological boundaries.

Selected examples

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.

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