Film as a Subversive Art - Hardcover Book

Published by Film Desk Books, 2021Sewn bound hardcover with dust jacketFirst printing of 3,000 copies336 pages9x6.5 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 “Is there a film book more influential? … a gorgeous revised edition.”—Cinema Scope Magazine “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 consi