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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... physical images marking or exhibiting the spiritual presence of a deity that was by defini- tion physically " invisible . " They became " living images " ( 1376 ) . Calvin did not deny that they could also be understood as symbolic ...
... physical connection to its object . Belief in the validity of the natural sign as Peirce defined it is far more current and widespread than has generally been recognized - even among theorists themselves . In contemporary life , indexes ...
... physical immediacy as the totality of identity . It con- ceptualized a person as a thing without consciousness whose physical being involuntarily emitted signs . Peirce's theory shows how fetishism can be understood as a technique for ...
Contents
The Capitalist Theory of the Image | 5 |
Congruence with the Capitalist Economy | 17 |
Critique of Barthes | 24 |
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