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

 * 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)

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.