Public 16's Subversive Nub

A "Film As a Subversive Art" Information Exchange Nub

book by Amos Vogel - 1974 Edition

The Subversive Nub was started in Nov. 2005 by Philip Hood as an easily accessible place to find the films from Amos Vogel's influential book on film as a subversive art.

Click here for full list of [All Films] [By Author] [By Location] [By Year]

• 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