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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... Lacan Iconoclast , " Freudian psychoanalysis was already potentially iconoclastic even before Lacan's more radical revision of it : " Freud staked out a deep unconscious , subject to the power of the image , predating language , eluding ...
... Lacan , " the verbal , the phonetic , the letter are at the heart of the mechanism of the unconscious . Dreams ... Lacan's theory of the uncon- scious was , Goux observed , " a phonetic interpretation that dissolves every product of the ...
... Lacan spoke of the infant being " captated , " taken or seized , captured by the image , held hostage , never to be released ( 4 ) .38 Lacan also connected images with vio- lence , going on to argue for an intrinsic connection between ...
Contents
The Capitalist Theory of the Image | 5 |
Congruence with the Capitalist Economy | 17 |
Critique of Barthes | 24 |
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