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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... Mulvey's theory ironically rationalized cinema as uniquely revelatory . Cinema could claim to record the image - ness of the living image , its salutary sparkle . In effect , Mulvey made this claim with her idea of " the woman as icon ...
... Mulvey's theory reified the gender cate- gories of heterosexuality , the iconoclasm that supported this reification was not gendered . The iconoclastic paradigm of capitalism can accommo- date other sexualities , since the iconoclastic ...
... Mulvey thought she had attacked . Mulvey's suggestion is just as valuable now as when she made it , all the more so with the extensive development of international cinema . The second essay in this book is about the kind of film that Mulvey ...
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 |