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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... kind of images . It does , however , take time to get there . As Ebrahimian explained of this kind of film , " When the film ends , a thinking process starts . There are afterthoughts . American film doesn't have that . " With The ...
... kind of images , images that comment on the story but are not essential to it . The major symbolism of The Suitors is instead composed by the montage , the third kind of images that are unrepre- sented images created by juxtaposition ...
... kind advocated by Eisenstein provokes iconic readings of the film from the viewer . That problematic quality is not erased by a concept of one event following another . It is erased by a concept that one event , and only one event ...
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 |