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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... Anne ( Katrin Cartlidge ) , who is an editor at a photographic agency . The story begins with her at work , looking through photos . When she picks up some photographs about the violence in the Balkans , a thematic resem- blance with ...
... Anne is safe from attack behind that hard glass door , as the purling drain of trans- parent water on the whitest of shower floors makes very clear . She is not , and will not become , a victim of violence . However , in her protected ...
... Anne is looking at the pictures of Kiril and Zamira , she gets a phone call from someone in Macedonia asking for Aleksandar . The voice sounds like Kiril's - he had told Zamira that he had an uncle in London who was a famous ...
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 |