SHOCKING CINEMA

Bunuel and Dali's Un chien andalou (1928) remains one of the most shocking films ever made.


FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART - AMOS VOGEL

'Intending Film as a Subversive Art to profile the “accelerating world-wide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored,” Vogel seized the opportunity to introduce these unfamiliar films and filmmakers to a broader audience than the societies and festivals could ever reach. Though a few who worked outside of conventional guidelines had established their own followings (notably Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger and Stan Brakhage), Vogel offered equal time to just about anyone whose films provided instances of truth and wisdom while subverting linear narrative structure and the limitations imposed by time and space—“a cinema of experience rather than entertainment” derived from “the subversion of consciousness.” '

- This book would be useful if I were to choose a question to do with the anti rules created and controversial issues dealt with in art film /'shokcing cinema' focussing on European art films
- OR the intentional detachments of art film / form conventions