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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... crux of this social relation through the trope of metonymy — a concept qualita- tively different from representational art or the idea of metaphor . By taking a materialist approach to the Protestant semiotics of Introduction.
... semiotics of the image in Essay One , I show the congruence between the Protestant sacra- mental image and the commodity of Marx's theory . As well , I explain how corporate distribution and consumption add another layer of mysti ...
... . As a careful consideration of Peirce shows , the concept of the natural or indexical sign , the belief in linear narrative , the semiotics of racial prejudice , and the theory of the photograph as a recorded image INTRODUCTION 3.
... semiotic philosophy . Before the Rain demands a different theoretical approach , and for that I turn to essays by Sergei Eisenstein . Eisenstein's essays on cinematography offer a theory of the photographic image based on a concept of ...
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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 |