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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... concept : that the consecrated people and elements of the sacrament are images . The latter concept , that people are living images , was grounded in the ritual of consecration , presumed to be self - sufficient , without need of images ...
... concept . He gave quite a few examples of Japanese ideograms , such as “ a knife and a heart signifies ' sorrow ' " ( 30 ) . When juxtaposed , graphic images do not remain bound to the graphic level . They yield undepicted concepts ...
... concept of one event following another . It is erased by a concept that one event , and only one event , must follow from another . Woodard's faith , or perhaps his ex - faith , reflects both the unique meaning that an index claims to ...
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 |