Film as a Subversive Art - Amos Vogel

Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel / a nice new hardcover edition from Film Desk Books (2021) / ISBN 9780999468388 / 336 pages, 6.5 x 9 inches *** "Film as a Subversive Art takes an outstanding place…in the already extensive literature on film. It’s pictorial enlightenment and its text make it an invaluable work.”—Luis Buñuel “Vogel’s masterpiece is one of the truly iconic books on cinema.”—Greg de Cuir Jr., independent curator and writer “A manifesto that wages war on cinema’s orthodoxies.”—Nick Pinkerton, The Village Voice “Amos Vogel is the moral conscience of the world of cinema.”—Werner Herzog “One of the great pioneers of the avant-garde film.”—Yoko Ono “The man was a giant.”—Martin Scorsese Amos Vogel’s seminal book Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974 and, in Vogel’s own words, detailed, “the accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored.” It is now av