The entire text (and many of the pictures!) from Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art, a fairly exhaustive history of avant-garde and "alternative" cinema with an anti-establishmentarian agenda, has been posted by Subterranean Cinema. This is good news for anyone who's been trying to find a reading copy of the book, which doesn't exactly litter the shelves of used bookstores, but I'm unclear on its copyright status. So while I hope this has been posted with the approval of Vogel and/or his publisher, Random House, it's entirely possible that it's a bootleg copy. Still pretty fascinating stuff. (I've long thought somebody could compile an interesting and commercially viable DVD of films drawn from the entries in this book; many of them are surely mouldering away in somebody's garage and are unlikely to find wide distribution outside of this context, or film-studies classrooms.)

Posted by Bryant Frazer at February 27, 2005 03:30 PM

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