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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... sign , not the iconic sign . INDEXES : THE NATURAL IMAGE , RACISM , AND PHOTOGRAPHY In Peirce's triadic scheme of signs , the place of images within it has usu- ally been treated as obviously iconic . However , his theory of indexical ...
... iconic sign , the index offered an assurance of positive fact , an absolute point of reference , contact with the real through its physical connection to its object . Belief in the validity of the natural sign as Peirce defined it is ...
... iconic sign , with great variability of meaning , and as an indexical sign , a distinctive means of recognizing her wherever she appears in the film . The haircut as iconic sign varies with the cultural frame of reference - punishment ...
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 |