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Film as a subversive art / Amos Vogel ; Foreword Scott MacDonald

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Film Desk Books, 2021Description: x, 336 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780999468388 (hardback)
  • 0999468383 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/0909/35
LOC classification:
  • PN 1995 V878f 2021
Contents:
Editorial foreword / Herb Shellenberger Introduction to the 2005 edition / Scott MacDonald Preface to the 2005 edition / Amos Vogel The film experience The world view of subversive cinema Part I. Weapons of subversion the subversion of form: The revolutionary film Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia Aesthetic rebels and rebellious clowns The destruction of time and space The destruction of plot and narrative The assault on montage The triumph and death of the moving camera The devaluation of language Straining towards the limits Part II. Weapons of subversion : the subversion of content: International left and revolutionary cinema The terrible poetry of Nazi cinema Secrets and revelations Part III. Weapons of subversion : forbidden subjects of the cinema: The power of the visual taboo The attack on puritanism : nudity The end of sexual taboos : erotic and pornographic cinema The end of sexual taboos : homosexuality and other variants The first mystery : birth The ultimate secret : death The attack on god : blasphemy and anti-clericalism Trance and witchcraft Part IV. Towards a new consciousness: Counterculture and Avant-Garde The subversion of subversion The eternal subversion
Summary: "A classic returns! The original edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974, and has been out of print since 1987. 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 40 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 subversion of form, as well as of content, is placed within the context of the contemporary world view of science, philosophy, and modern art, and is illuminated by a detailed examination of over 500 films, including many banned, rarely seen, or never released works"-- Provided by publisher.
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Originally published: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974. A facsimile edition was published in 2005 by C.T. Editions
Author's name from book jacket

Editorial foreword / Herb Shellenberger
Introduction to the 2005 edition / Scott MacDonald
Preface to the 2005 edition / Amos Vogel
The film experience
The world view of subversive cinema
Part I. Weapons of subversion the subversion of form:
The revolutionary film Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia
Aesthetic rebels and rebellious clowns
The destruction of time and space
The destruction of plot and narrative
The assault on montage
The triumph and death of the moving camera
The devaluation of language
Straining towards the limits
Part II. Weapons of subversion : the subversion of content:
International left and revolutionary cinema
The terrible poetry of Nazi cinema
Secrets and revelations
Part III. Weapons of subversion : forbidden subjects of the cinema:
The power of the visual taboo
The attack on puritanism : nudity
The end of sexual taboos : erotic and pornographic cinema
The end of sexual taboos : homosexuality and other variants
The first mystery : birth
The ultimate secret : death
The attack on god : blasphemy and anti-clericalism
Trance and witchcraft
Part IV. Towards a new consciousness:
Counterculture and Avant-Garde
The subversion of subversion
The eternal subversion

"A classic returns! The original edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974, and has been out of print since 1987. 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 40 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 subversion of form, as well as of content, is placed within the context of the contemporary world view of science, philosophy, and modern art, and is illuminated by a detailed examination of over 500 films, including many banned, rarely seen, or never released works"-- Provided by publisher.

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