Theory of the image : capitalism, contemporary film, and women

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Theory of the image : capitalism, contemporary film, and women

Ann Kibbey

Indiana University Press, c2005

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-235) and index

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: pbk ISBN 9780253217462

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"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.

Table of Contents

Contents<\> Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Capitalist Theory of the Image The Iconoclastic Theory of the Image and the Corporation Congruence with the Capitalist Economy Critique of Baudrillard Critique of Barthes Debord and the Social Production of the Image Screening Out: Lacan's Mirror Stage and the Cinematic Apparatus Mulvey's Symbiosis of Woman and Image 2. Liberating a Woman from Her Image The Suitors Persian Narrative Structure and Activating the Audience The Story of the Veil The Story of the Sheep How Images Move the Story Around Character and the Mutable Image of the Veil The Stabbing Exit the Black Screen Suitcase 3. Relief from the Production of Certainties Overview: Peirce, Eisenstein, Manchevski The Icon as a Set of Relations Indexes: The Natural Image, Racism, Photography Why Eisenstein Has Been a Threat Before the Rain: An Iconic Film Women, Time, Photos "Have a Nice War. Take Pictures." Linear Narrative, Cubist Narrative Selected Bibliography Index
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ISBN 9780253344694

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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.

Table of Contents

  • Part I The capitalist theory of the imageThe iconoclastic theory of the image and the corporation
  • Congruence with the capitalist economy
  • Critique of Baudrillard
  • Critique of Barthes
  • Debord and the social production of the image
  • Screening out: Lacan's mirror stage and the cinematic apparatus
  • Mulvey's symbiosis of woman and imageLiberating a woman from her imageThe suitors
  • Persian narrative structure and activating the audience
  • The story of the veil
  • The story of the sheep
  • How images move the story around
  • Character and the mutable image of the veil
  • The stabbing
  • Exit the black screen suitcaseRelief from the production of certaintiesOverview: Pierce, Eisenstein, Manchevski
  • The icon as a set of relations
  • Indexes: The natural image, racism, photography
  • Why Eisenstein has been a threat
  • Before the Rain: An iconic film
  • Women, time, photos
  • "Have a nice war. Take pictures."
  • Linear narrative, cubist narrative

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