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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Capitalism, Contemporary Film, and Women Ann Kibbey. Mariyam's actions , to see her ... slasher films , a genre that experienced rapid development in the decade ... film's most explicit allusion to Psycho , a shot of bloody water running ...
Capitalism, Contemporary Film, and Women Ann Kibbey. Carol Clover has described the American slasher genre as a particular kind of horror film that features a female heroine , the " Final Girl , " who successfully turns on her male ...
... slasher film nor Clover's analysis does anything to challenge this . Clover's essay demonstrates instead how masculine terms are used to conceptualize and describe female main characters in films . The Suitors is a radical departure ...
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 |