Film as a Subversive Art is a fully illustrated 1974 film history book by Amos Vogel with mini-essays on over 600 films.^[1]

Summary

The book was a catalogue of films^[2] that broke aesthetic, sexual and ideological boundaries.^[3]

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)

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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.^[7]