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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... reification of the image became the methodology of Debord's analysis . The conspiratorial tone of his chapter on the commodity as spectacle emphasized the effects of the reified image and the powerlessness of the individual who ...
... reification , and the Peircean natural sign were all basically the same thing . Lukács ' essay on reification , which took Marx's theory of the fetishized commodity as its starting point , showed how reification was extended through all ...
... reification , published in 1922 , which was widely distrib- uted and widely read in Europe.37 Lukács brought to the foreground the problem of reification , beginning with Marx's comments in Capital con- cerning the fetishism of ...
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 |