Amos Vogel

Amos Vogel ( born Amos Vogel tree; born April 18, 1921 in Vienna, † 24 April, 2012 New York) was an American film scholar and critic. He was known especially for his unconventional film history Film as a Subversive Art.

Life

Bird fled the fall of 1938 with his parents, the Jews and Communists were from Vienna.

Bird initially studied agriculture at the University of Georgia and then at the New School for Social Research in New York, where he earned a degree in economics. The racism he experienced in the southern USA, Bird was as bad as anti-Semitism, whom he knew from Europe.

From 1947 to 1963 he ran with his wife Marcia Cinema 16, the most successful and influential film club in the history of North America, which at its peak had over 7000 members.

He was the first to show in the U.S. films of Roman Polanski, John Cassavetes, Nagisa Oshima, Jacques Rivette and Alain Resnais as well as American avant-garde filmmakers of the time such as Kenneth Anger, Sidney Peterson, Bruce Conner, Carmen D' Avino and many others.

For bird unusual program work it was, for example, to show in a presentation documentaries and experimental films. Bird had been the foundation of the club to the model of the screenings, the Maya had Their organized, excited.

He founded the film department at Lincoln Center and 1963 together with Richard Roud, the New York Film Festival, for whose program he was in charge until 1968. In 1973, the bird Annenberg Cinematheque at the University of Pennsylvania and eventually became Professor of Film Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, where he taught for two decades.

Vogel took part in the 2003 documentary created in the Mirror of Maya Deren Martina Kudlácek.

With over 80 years still active, Bird saw his efforts, films that push the boundaries of mainstream cinema in terms of content and / or formal sense, to make known, as morally offered resistance to the homogenization of the experience by the culture industry and against the infantilization by the mass media.

Writings

  • How Little Lori Visited Times Square. Children's book. 1963 reissue. HarperCollins, 2001, ISBN 0,060,284,625th
  • Film as a Subversive Art, 1974 edition. Thames & Hudson, 2005, ISBN 0954707117 German. Film as subversive art. Cinema against the taboos - from Eisenstein to Kubrick. Hannibal, St. Andrew - Woerdern 1997.
  • Amos Vogel. A New York filmmaker from Vienna. (Ed. Brigitte Mayr, Michael Omasta ) Synema publications, Vienna 2011, ISBN 9,783,901,644,405th

Documentary about bird

  • Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16 Paul Cronin, UK, 2003; 56 min
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