Film as a subversive art

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The film experience --The world view of subversive cinema --Pt. 1. Weapons of subversion : the subversion of form. The revolutionary film avant-garde in Soviet Russia --Aesthetic rebels and rebellious clowns. Expressionism: the cinema of unrest ; Surrealism: the cinema of shock ; Dada and Pop: anti-art? ; The comic tradition --The destruction of time and space --The destruction of plot and narrative --The assault on montage --The triumph and death of the moving camera. The camera moves ; Minimal cinema --The devaluation of language --Straining towards the limits. The elimination of reality ; The subversion of illusion ; The elimination of the image ; The elimination of the screen ; The elimination of the camera ; The elimination of the artist --Pt. 2. Weapons of subversion : the subversion of content. International left and revolutionary cinema. The West: rebels, Maoists, and the new Goddard ; Subversion in Eastern Europe: Aesopian metaphors ; The Third World: a new cinema ; East Germany : against the West --The terrible poetry of Nazi cinema --Secrets and revelations --Pt. 3. Weapons of subversion : forbidden subjects of the cinema. The power of the visual taboo --The attack on puritanism : nudity --The end of sexual taboos : erotic and pornographic cinema --The end of sexual taboos : homosexuality and other variants --The first mystery : birth --The ultimate secret : death. Death ; Concentration camps --The attack on God : blasphemy and anti-clericalism --Trance and witchcraft --Pt. 4. Towards a new consciousness. Counterculture and avant-garde --The subversion of subversion --The eternal subversion.