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- ↑ Anthology Film Archives
- ↑ FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART: The End of Sexual Taboos — Spectacle Theater
- ↑ Museum of the Moving Image
- ↑ Amos Vogel and Film as a Subversive Art Honored with Series of 16 Iconic Films - BWW TV World
- ↑ The Canon of Subversion: Amos Vogel and the Films That Assailed the Art|The Village Voice
- ↑ Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
- ↑ Video as a Subversive Art: The 48th San Francisco International Film Festival — Senses of Cinema