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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... cinematography opens up the possibilities of variant interpretations and meanings by foregrounding the problematic relations among images . Through its cinematography and montage , the film constructs an iconic perspective that allows ...
... cinematography adds yet another conceptual dimension of montage , between the story - as - story and the camera that tells the story . The story moves , and the storyteller moves , too , so the nature of the juxtaposition is always ...
... cinematography also refuses the use of renaissance perspective . For instance , as the camera moves to a tall man on the perimeter with a machine gun on his shoulder , the viewer sees his face clearly , but the camera does not rest on ...
Contents
The Capitalist Theory of the Image | 5 |
Congruence with the Capitalist Economy | 17 |
Critique of Barthes | 24 |
Copyright | |
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War, Image and Legitimacy: Viewing Contemporary Conflict Milena Michalski,James Gow No preview available - 2007 |