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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... Barthes ' semiotics drew more directly on the basic premises of the Calvinist sacrament in his Mythologies , the most widely read post - structuralist theory in the U.S. In a collection of meditations on mass culture and the media , Barthes ...
... Barthes took pains to repudiate the natural world as a source of second - order meaning . Myth " cannot possibly evolve from the nature of things " ( 110 ) , but Barthes said this for quite different reasons than Calvin said it . Where ...
... Barthes made between the photograph and the person . In fact , Barthes ' equivalence captured the sense in which it was the image - ness of the person that consecration bestowed , the image - ness that was the distinguishing mark of the ...
Contents
The Capitalist Theory of the Image | 5 |
Congruence with the Capitalist Economy | 17 |
Critique of Barthes | 24 |
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War, Image and Legitimacy: Viewing Contemporary Conflict Milena Michalski,James Gow No preview available - 2007 |