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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... Aleksandar has a relation to the photo- graph that differs from that of the women characters in the film , but his relation is also substantially changed by an iconic way of thinking.55 Recall that the theory of the indexical image ...
... Aleksandar finds himself beset with a photographic mind of a particular sort , an indexical way of thinking that is ... Aleksandar . As if by compulsion , Aleksandar holds up his hand near his face , as if he were about to cover his eyes ...
... Aleksandar is happy and satisfied to be at peace with this nat- uralization , his contact with the real of the Object , unmoved by Zdrave's grief and horror at what has happened . Aleksandar's death gives him a striking visibility for ...
Contents
The Capitalist Theory of the Image | 5 |
Congruence with the Capitalist Economy | 17 |
Critique of Barthes | 24 |
Copyright | |
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War, Image and Legitimacy: Viewing Contemporary Conflict Milena Michalski,James Gow No preview available - 2007 |