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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... semiotic link between capitalism and Protestantism that yields a deeper understanding of the capitalist theory of the image . As Baudrillard argued in The Mirror of Production , Marx did not develop a model that could describe the semiotics ...
... semiotic vocabulary to describe its workings , apparently unaware of its massive indebtedness to that earlier French ... semiotics : true or not , there is no other way . CRITIQUE OF BAUDRILLARD Among its most eloquent and most anguished ...
... semiotics was a capitulation to the imagistic requirements of circulation and consumption in corporate capitalism . His theory was a model of socialization into the capitalist economy , a capitula- tion to its semiotics as inevitable ...
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 |