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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... idea of " the woman as icon , " the crux of the essay ( 29 ) .47 “ An idea of woman stands as linchpin to the sys- tem , " she said , meaning both the psychoanalytic system and the Hollywood narrative system ( 22 ) . Like the French ...
... idea of his that was based on an awkward combination of theatrical and industrial production . However , this was an idea he largely rejected when he turned to film . Eisenstein's important essays on cinematography begin with those he ...
... idea of montage as an assembly of images , images put together and immo- bilized " like bricks . " This idea , which initially had informed the " montage of attractions , " was cast off as a " make - shift analysis " ( 36 ) . Now the ...
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 |