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

Life

Vogel had to flee Vienna in autumn 1938 with his parents, who were Jews and communists.

Vogel first 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. Vogel felt the racism he experienced in the south of the USA was just as bad as the anti-Semitism he knew from Europe.

From 1947 to 1963 he ran - together with his wife Marcia - Cinema 16 , the most successful and influential film club in the history of North America, which at its best had over 7,000 members.

He was the first to show films by Roman Polański , John Cassavetes , Nagisa Ōshima , 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 in the USA .

Vogel's unusual program work included B. to show documentaries and experimental films in a performance . Vogel was inspired to found the club by the example of the film screenings organized by Maya Deren .

He founded the Film Department at Lincoln Center and in 1963, together with Richard Roud, the New York Film Festival , for whose program he was responsible until 1968. In 1973 Vogel founded the Annenberg Cinematheque at the University of Pennsylvania and finally received a professorship in film studies at the Annenberg School for Communication , where he taught for two decades.

Vogel took part in the 2001 documentary film Im Spiegel der Maya Deren by Martina Kudláček .

Still active at over 80 years of age, Vogel saw his efforts to make films that transcend the boundaries of mainstream cinema in terms of content and / or form better known as a morally necessary resistance to the homogenization of experience by the culture industry and against infantilization the mass media.

After Amos Vogel's death on April 24, 2012, his sons Steven and Loring approached the Austrian Film Museum and made it possible to purchase the collection of books that went back to the 1930s. In the coming years, the huge inventory in the Amos Vogel Library will be processed and made accessible to the public.

Be Sand, Not Oil, edited by Paul Cronin in 2014 . The Life and Work of Amos Vogel brings together selected articles and documents by Amos Vogel as well as essays about him and his diverse life's work.

Fonts

  • How Little Lori Visited Times Square. Children's book. 1963. New edition: HarperCollins, 2001, ISBN 0060284625 .
  • Film as a Subversive Art. 1974. New edition: Thames & Hudson, 2005, ISBN 0954707117 . German: film as subversive art. Cinema against taboos - from Eisenstein to Kubrick. Hannibal, St. Andrä-Wölker 1997.
  • Amos bird. A New York cineast from Vienna. (Red. Brigitte Mayr, Michael Omasta) Synema Publications, Vienna 2011, ISBN 9783901644405 .
  • Paul Cronin (Ed.), Be Sand, Not Oil: The Life and Work of Amos Vogel , FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen Volume 24, Vienna: SYNEMA - Society for Film and Media, 2014, ISBN 978-3-901644-59-7

Documentary about bird

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amos Vogel, A Leading Figure of Modern American Film Culture, Dies at 91
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from May 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on August 1, 2009
  3. ↑ cf. the foreword to the new edition of Film as a Subversive Art Archivlink ( Memento of May 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on August 1, 2009
  4. ↑ Amos Vogel Library in the Austrian Film Museum , accessed on March 9, 2017.
  5. ^ Be Sand, Not Oil , accessed March 9, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Amos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogelbaum, Amos (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film scholar and critic of Austrian origin
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2012
Place of death New York City