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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... American viewers are accustomed to see- ing in film . As Ebrahimian himself explained it , a major difference is the concept of character in relation to events . From Ebrahimian's perspective , in conventional American media characters ...
... American viewers , and particularly women viewers , also thought the destruction of the dress was a compelling symbolic act . They were very surprised by it and found it a deeply gratifying scene . For TN , it was the high point of the ...
... American viewer , the veil's power in The Suitors lies in what it symbolically allows a viewer to perceive about a ... viewers to think of her as being just like an American woman in the film's earlier scenes . When the veil is the image ...
Contents
The Capitalist Theory of the Image | 5 |
Congruence with the Capitalist Economy | 17 |
Critique of Barthes | 24 |
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