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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... mirror stage from Henri Wallon , also using additional work by Charlotte Bühler and Elsa Köhler.36 With his introduc- tion of the mirror stage into psychoanalytic theory , Lacan staged his own iconoclastic crisis , one that had nothing ...
... mirror stage ended , inaugurating " the dialectic that will henceforth link the ' T ' to socially elaborated situations " ( 5 ) . He distin- guished between " identity , " which he attributed to the mirror stage , and " subjectivity ...
... Mirror Stage as Formative for the Function of the I , " in Ěcrits , p . 2. References to this essay are hereafter cited in the text . As to why the mirror stage occurred , Lacan's explanation seems like a satire on the important concept ...
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 |