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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... Protestant sources on icono- clasm in early modern Europe to understand why early Protestants attacked images . What I have found is a paradigm far different from our common assumptions about the motives of the iconoclasts . The ...
... Protestant living image , though he does not realize that is what it is . In his truncated and con- fused discussion of iconoclasts , Baudrillard omits any discussion of the sacramental living images at the heart of Protestantism , and ...
... Protestant practices , in contrast with Catholic practices , are the subject of Crew , Preaching and Iconoclasm , which is especially detailed on the way early Protestants improvised sacramental rites around preachers in the fields ...
Contents
The Capitalist Theory of the Image | 5 |
Congruence with the Capitalist Economy | 17 |
Critique of Barthes | 24 |
Copyright | |
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