Theory of the Image: Capitalism, Contemporary Film, and Women"Just about everything in this book is fresh and exciting." --Carol Siegel Ann Kibbey's Theory of the Image is based on a concept of the image as a dynamic relation rather than a thing. In three essays Kibbey contends that the image itself is an ideological construct. "The Capitalist Theory of the Image" argues that capitalism enforces social identity and fetishism through religious iconoclastic beliefs about the commodity as image. "Liberating a Woman from Her Image" creates a new feminist approach to women in film, breaking the symbiosis of woman and image at the heart of previous theory. "Relief from the Production of Certainties" challenges conservative and racist agendas informing the assumption that a photograph records an image. The book draws on extensive personal interviews and also provides detailed explications of important films in recent transnational cinema to demonstrate new theories of the image for a global society. |
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... Iconoclastic Theory of the Image and the Corporation 6 Congruence with the Capitalist Economy Critique of Baudrillard 20 Critique of Barthes 24 17 Debord and the Social Production of the Image 32 Screening Out : Lacan's Mirror Stage and ...
... iconoclasts . The initiating premise of iconoclasm was a belief in true images rather than a hatred of false images . Because early Protestant iconoclasts believed there was such a thing as a true image , the significance of images as a ...
... iconoclastic / capitalist theory of the image , describing its effects rather than offering an alternative . This limitation also informed the development of post - structuralist film theory from the 1960s to the 1980s . This era of ...
... iconoclastic theory considered the problem of woman and image from an exterior frame of reference , emphasizing the dependence of the image on Woman . This film shows that actual women experience this symbiosis in its reverse form , as ...
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Contents
The Capitalist Theory of the Image | 5 |
The Iconoclastic Theory of the Image and the Corporation | 6 |
Congruence with the Capitalist Economy | 17 |
Critique of Baudrillard | 20 |
Critique of Barthes | 24 |
Debord and the Social Production of the Image | 32 |
Lagans Mirror Stage and the Cinematic Apparatus | 34 |
Mulveys Symbiosis of Woman and Image | 38 |
The Stabbing | 98 |
Exit the Black Screen Suitcase | 115 |
Relief from the Production of Certainties | 133 |
The Icon as a Set of Relations | 134 |
The Natural Image Racism and Photography | 145 |
Why Eisenstein Has Been a Threat | 160 |
An Iconic Film | 164 |
Women Time Photos | 180 |
Liberating a Woman from Her Image | 45 |
Persian Narrative Structure and Activating the Audience | 50 |
The Story of the Veil | 55 |
The Story of the Sheep | 65 |
How Images Move the Story Around | 74 |
Character and the Mutable Image of the Veil | 85 |
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War, Image and Legitimacy: Viewing Contemporary Conflict Milena Michalski,James Gow No preview available - 2007 |