Theory of the image
Subtitle: capitalism, contemporary film, and women
By: Ann Kibbey.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Suitors (Motion picture); Before the rain (Motion picture); Women in motion pictures; Image (Philosophy); Capitalism -- Philosophy; Motion pictures -- Philosophy
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: The capitalist theory of the image; title: Liberating a woman from her image; title: Relief from the production of certainties.