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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... perspective , validating that perspective strongly as the camera tilts up at the men killing the sheep , whose shirts are being covered with spurting blood . Though the viewer sees the effects of the killing on the bloody shirts , the ...
... perspective rather than an omniscient one . The camera is placed at the bottom of the stairs and is stationary - as a person might be who is waiting at the bot- tom of the stairs for someone to come down . DS made a similar observa ...
... perspective , no people , and a geometric emphasis on the cur- vature of the roads and the shapes of grouped houses . The montage then cuts to a point - of - view shot , the perspective of several women walking uphill , making a strong ...
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 |