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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... evokes in the American viewer a feeling of danger about a woman and her image . This feeling of danger comes less ... evoked feelings of fear , hostility , entrapment , and imprison- ment that showed they were quite knowledgeable ...
... evokes that ideal at a level you can take seriously . " Mariyam's experience of freedom is more than a refusal to read the representational image as an accurate idea of a woman . Or , to put it another way , that refusal can be attained ...
... evokes the idea that death will be her fate , it also reads that death as something other than inevitable , as a gratuitous act . Unlike the numerous transgressive women who die in moralistic American films , the prospect of Mariyam's ...
Contents
The Capitalist Theory of the Image | 5 |
Congruence with the Capitalist Economy | 17 |
Critique of Barthes | 24 |
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