There is a blessed equity to his self-depiction.
The scandal sheets were the worrying mirror of a society that was in a constant state of self-celebration, self-depiction, self- congratulation".
In almost every case, Palin's own part in these conflicts is scrubbed free of complicating detail, lest it add darkening shadows to her pastel self-depiction.
It's true of artists in other fields as well, but for filmmakers, whose art is one of representation and self-depiction, the life offscreen is cinema, too.
This young man can paint in the big league, his self-depiction proves, rivalling the Dutch, French and Italian masters (and one mistress – Artemisia Gentileschi) who were so admired at Charles I's court.
But criticism from the left has been oddly muted, partly thanks to Putin's self-depiction asa counterweight to a US "unipolar world" exemplified by Dick Cheney and oil-driven military adventures.
And his self-depiction in the Goncourt-winning The Map and the Territory (in which the protagonist, an artist, creates a portrait of him) is far less lenient than Le Monde's portrayal: its "Michel Houellebecq" is a morose, alcoholic, latently suicidal, possibly paranoid near-recluse and misanthrope.
Steve plays a dangerous game with his editors as well: his ongoing series focusses on one particular compulsive gambler, a so-called Mr. Green, who is, of course, Steve's autobiographical avatar — yet he doesn't let his editor know of his self-depiction, of the fabrication of that character, until very late in the game.
Last Friday, June 18th, the seventieth anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle's "appel," or call, for French resistance to the German occupation, I posted about a few related cinematic manifestations, including Jean-Luc Godard's self-depiction, in "In Praise of Love," from 2001, as a sort of modern-day caller to resistance.
She closes an upbeat set with her US breakthrough hit, Here, a moody rumination on feeling alienated at a house party, even though her self-depiction as an "antisocial pessimist" is hard to square with the eager-to-please beacon of positivity before us – an especially confusing label, considering she ends the set by jumping into the crowd, to work the room just that little bit more.
America needs exposure to more media images of Arabs and others that are self-depictions, and yes, one-sided representations of their reality.
