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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... social rather than economic . Protestantism also provided the semiotic paradigm for the mystification inherent in ... social significance in its own right . To put this another way , the social character of labor is obliterated by an ...
... social critique . Feminist psychoanalytic theorists became , in effect , apologists for the power of myth , a power they saw as compelling , inevitable , universal , and true - the same attributes that myth - consumers assigned to myth ...
... social context and relating him exclusively to the meaning of the myth , French Imperialism , the political form of ... social contradictions , making it impossible to conceptualize social conflict : " it organizes a world which is ...
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 |