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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... critique it . Because society has strongly linked women with image - ness and vice versa , a critique of images of women in film can be a point of leverage for a larger critique of a whole system of images in contemporary society ...
... critique , another way to think . Late in the book , chapter 8 , he is still moving " towards a critique . " Nor does he recognize historical antecedents such as Calvin , or explain his use of religious terms such as “ sanctification ...
... critique was thor- oughly indebted to the system he thought he was criticizing . What Barthes meant by " myth " was what Calvin meant by " consecration . " Barthes described myth as a “ second - order semiological system , " built on ...
Contents
The Capitalist Theory of the Image | 5 |
Congruence with the Capitalist Economy | 17 |
Critique of Barthes | 24 |
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