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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... sacrament are images . The latter concept , that people are living images , was grounded in the ritual of ... sacrament that frees the living image from the need for " other images . " It was in his sacramental beliefs that he expounded ...
... sacrament a salutary experience , or made living images something special . Instead , it was the metonymy as a performative utterance — the belief that the words enacted what they declared.14 The objects of the sacrament and the human ...
... sacramental object . Calvin emphasized the use value of the objects of the sacrament , and he meant that in the same way that Marx meant it . Without consecration , the bread and wine used in the sacrament were no different from ...
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 |