Film as a subversive art

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.