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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... paradigm were . I am in search of something more than isolating a sign - object or image - object for analysis . The more com- prehensive idea of a paradigm includes an understanding of the episte- mological assumptions and social ...
... paradigm . Metonymy was not only the privileged trope of the sacramental paradigm . It was also the trope of traditional marriage - when a woman married and was renamed with her husband's name . The metonymy of marriage articulated a ...
... paradigm of capitalism can accommo- date other sexualities , since the iconoclastic paradigm of capitalist con- sumerism is not inherently sexual . The bread and the wine were not gendered . Metonymy and its hierarchy were not gendered ...
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 |