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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... story about a woman's relation to her image . As she explores that relation , the film traces her increasing divergence from the patriarchal plot that runs alongside her own story and contests it . Her uncertainty about her veil , put ...
... story but did not itself tell the story.25 Ebrahimian described his idea of a script as something that resembled a musical score rather than a book or short story . In working out the plan for the film , the writer / director ...
... story of the sheep . The sheep's death off - screen has marked this space as the place of the sacrificial victim throughout the film . Literally absented from the screen in an act of gratuitous violence , the dark meaning of the sheep's ...
Contents
The Capitalist Theory of the Image | 5 |
Congruence with the Capitalist Economy | 17 |
Critique of Barthes | 24 |
Copyright | |
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