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Edgar" doesn't only show how Hoover manipulated movie-makers, but how movie-makers bend to prevailing winds, and, ultimately, how Hoover makes the pathetic, tragic mistake of creating a public image out of staged achievements — and the even more tragic one of claiming his public image as his private reality.
News flash: people with abusive tendencies are often very, very good at creating a public image that differs tremendously with what happens behind closed doors.
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Yet it is right to see him not as an outsider trying to impose a vision on Persia but rather as an insider who consciously created a public image of Persia out of his own sense of beauty and belonging.
They're the forerunners of the current age of always-on, of constant performance even in private to create a public image — along with the self-awareness of effect and purpose that results.
The problem for Mr Jospin, however, is that he has created a public image of honesty, and with only a year to go before the presidential election, in which he is set to oppose the conservative incumbent, Jacques Chirac, he can hardly afford to let that image be sullied.
Michel Contat writes about "this form of media totalitarianism that gives the right to know everything about someone based on the simple fact that he or she has created a public image". This phenomenon is not so new, if you think about Sartre and Beauvoir, not to mention Musset and George Sand, Dante and Beatrice, Petrarch and Laura, or even the self-dramatizing Byron or Chateaubriand.
Hitler created a public image as a celibate man without a domestic life, dedicated entirely to his political mission and the nation.
I think what they are trying to do is to create a public image that is much nicer to the country and the state that they are a cleaner company.
Just about every recording musician now feels compelled to create a public persona and image, a bid for celebrity.
Pop artist Andy Warhol was probably the most notable figure, for whom creating a public or media image was as important as creating art, but many others -- some of whom flitted in and out of notoriety -- found that their lives had become a matter of public concern, limiting their freedom.
The images could then be posted on Instagram, creating a public record for sources to help analyze.
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