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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... Mariyam rejects . DS understood the significance of the stabbing in The Suitors as the refusal of a cultural ide- ology rather than a rejection of Ali as an individual or as a man . For DS , the crucial victimization was the ideology of ...
... Mariyam was culturally trapped at the country house in a tra- ditional symbolism without efficacy . KL's interpretation also drew on this perception : " That killing - it's breaking into the world of action . " Mariyam breaks out of the ...
... Mariyam leaning against a doorway , dwelling on her anguished expression as the final image of the scene . While the camera encourages sympathy for Mariyam , its emphasis on her is not a moral vindication of her act or her perspective ...
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 |