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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... frame , because Mariyam is photo- graphed in motion , the angle of the shot vis - à - vis Mariyam is always changing , in effect a succession of diagonals ( the strongest line of action in the frame ) through a single take . This not ...
... frame , setting everything in motion as she herself moves . This does not mean that Mariyam blends into the frame . She is a striking figure in every scene in which she appears . LC pointed out that the sense of Mariyam as a black space ...
... frame , whose interpretive power is important . These are just some of the elements of a photograph that have to be ... frame as an open frame . For the image to stay within it was to confine it to a quadrilateral cage — exactly where ...
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 |