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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... linear - narra- tive viewer because Aleksandar - the - photographer has been until this point the invisible , metonymic embodiment for the truth of linear narra- tive . The illusion of linear time ... Linear Narrative, Cubist Narrative.
... Linear narrative claims to be indexical , and in the making of that claim , what is at stake is the interpretation of juxtaposition itself . What linear narrative requires is an indexical succession of images , a belief that images are ...
... linear or circular does not matter because the crux of the linear narrative is the contiguity of images , one next to another . Peirce's racist story about indexical meaning makes evident that one person's indexical meaning is another ...
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 |