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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... interviewed them . Interviews were done in the mid to late 1990s . About six months after Sept. 11 , 2001 , I did one further interview to see if it was substantially different , espe- cially on matters of terrorism . It was not . I ...
... interview someone right after she had seen the film . She called me back the next day and said she wanted to be interviewed again because she'd changed her mind about the film ! I interviewed this individual twice , and the second interview ...
... Interview with Ghasem Ebrahimian . " Personal interview . Audiotape , May 1992 . " Interviews with Principal Actors in The Suitors . " Personal interviews . Audiotape , 1992–93 . " Interviews with Viewers of The Suitors . " Personal ...
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 |