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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... sign , not the iconic sign . INDEXES : THE NATURAL IMAGE , RACISM , AND PHOTOGRAPHY In Peirce's triadic scheme of signs , the place of images within it has usu- ally been treated as obviously iconic . However , his theory of indexical ...
... natural sign is , as distinct from arbitrary signs . His choice bespeaks an unacknowledged anxi- ety about the arbitrary linguistic sign and a concomitant need for a natural sign that would ground his otherwise unstable system of linguistic ...
... signs are used to interpret a natural sign does not go far enough as a critique because it leaves the idea of the natu- ral sign intact , even strengthens it by implying it can be distinguished from the cultural signs used to interpret ...
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 |