We know Tarantino's interest doesn't so much lie in history as in the history of films; not so much in the time depicted as in previous depictions of the time.
M Zola remarked that it surprised him that no novelist had depicted the great city thoroughly.
Back then, women's "soccer" was frequently depicted as a joke – or even something slightly shameful.
Back in 2008, according to interrogation documents, handlers were forced to admit to new recruits coming straight from Europe that their facilities unfortunately bore no resemblance to those depicted in recruiting videos.
Reading Larkin is never a simple matter, and his depicted transition from "maiden" to "married" name invites multiple interpretations.
The CIA depicted here is the rogue agency of Hollywood fiction, writing its own rules, hoodwinking its paymasters and betraying the values for which America purports to stand.
But much of the transformation of the Queen's image, from the chilly, notoriously philistinic matriarch who couldn't care less about Diana to an ever more droll and sympathetic mentor to pitifully grateful prime ministers is surely attributable to Mirren's superb acting, and to the writers who have increasingly depicted the monarch as – so long as you are not Margaret Thatcher – fabulous company.
It not only should be discussed, it ought to be depicted.
For years science fiction has depicted criminals, governments and security forces being able to block signals with radio jammers.
From something to be depicted by artists, "madness" has become a source of artistic originality in itself.
Long before Google Earth, Hockney depicted these hills in absurd oranges, greens, blues and reds in landscapes such as Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio, 1980.
