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.

[1] The book was a catalogue of films[2] that broke aesthetic, sexual and ideological boundaries.

[3] [4][5][6] 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.

A documentary film of the same name about Vogel and directed by Paul Cronin was released in 2003.