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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... thought it was incredible — the whole scene of her in the suitcase and traveling through the guts of the airport and the breathing routine in there . And I was trying to decide if she was panicking and would flip and kill herself , or ...
... thought it was a wonderful and powerful statement about the oppression of women and I thought that was quite wonderful but not very subtle . Then this morning when I had my second set of reactions , the film seemed far better to me ...
... thought she was doomed . I thought she was just going to be a sheep , and she wasn't . " HT thought so because Mariyam's journey appears to materially repeat the sheep's . Each is shown in the back seat of a car crossing a large bridge ...
Contents
The Capitalist Theory of the Image | 5 |
Congruence with the Capitalist Economy | 17 |
Critique of Barthes | 24 |
Copyright | |
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