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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... screen images . It enhances the emotional inten- sity and symbolic meaning of both scenes as they are part of the plot . 35 There are many elements of shot composition that lend themselves to a semi - abstract design in the screen image ...
... screen is the pathway to the freedom of multiple meanings because , conceptually , it is a polyphonic image . It evokes and draws into itself both the story of the sheep and the story of the ... screen as off - screen 124 THEORY OF THE IMAGE.
... screen , the off - screen image - less death of the sheep comes on - screen , is fully acknowledged , and it is joined with the image - less black screen that is Mariyam . At the beginning of the film they were loosely paralleled by the ...
Contents
The Capitalist Theory of the Image | 5 |
Congruence with the Capitalist Economy | 17 |
Critique of Barthes | 24 |
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