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Film as a Subversive Art
Vogel, Amos
Publisher: Random House, New York, USAYear Published: 1974 Pages: 336pp ISBN: 394-73207-3 Dewey: 73-16720 Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX9283 Analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use film to change and demystify. Abstract: - Table of Contents The Film Experience The World View of Subversive Cinema Part One Weapons of Subversion: The Subversion of Form The Revolutionary Film avant-Garde in Soviet Russia Aesthetic Rebels and Rebellious Clowns Expressionism: The Cinema of Unrest Surrealism: The Cinema of Shock Dada and Pop: Anti-Art? The Comic Tradition 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 Camera Moves Minimal Cinema The Devaluation of Language Straining towards the Limits The Elimination of Reality The Subversion of Illusion The Elimination of the Image The Elimination of the Screen The Elimination of the Camera The Elimination of the Artist Part Two Weapons of Subversion: The Subversion of Content International Left and Revolutionary Cinema The West Rebels, Maoists, and the New Godard Subversion in Eastern Europe: Aesopian Metaphors The Third World: A new Cinema East Germany: Against the West The Terrible Poetry of Nazi Cinema Secrets and Revelations Part Three 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 Death Concentration Camps The Attack on God: Blasphemy and Anti-Clericalism Trance and Witchcraft Part Four Towards A New Consciousness Counterculture and Avant-garde The subversion of Subversion The Eternal Subversion Photographic Acknowledgements Bibliography Index of English film Titles Index of Foreign Film Titles Index of Directors Subject Headings
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