When the Court of Appeals overruled that decision, it said "visual art is as wide-ranging in its depiction of ideas, concepts and emotions as any book, treatise, pamphlet or other writing, and is similarly entitled to First Amendment protection".
As a novelist with a background in science myself (a PhD in nuclear physics, since you ask), I find that the depiction of scientific ideas in fiction can often be ham-fisted, superficial or just plain wrong.
The film explores the culture of assault, silence and judicial mishandling of rape cases on college campuses, but Gaga's video presents an even more visceral depiction of those ideas.
"Over the next several months, there will be clearer depictions to refine the ideas," Mr. Posillico said.
This does bring up the narrative arc of foreplay-undressing-oral sex-penetrative intercourse-male ejaculation-end that is so pervasive in our discussions, ideas, and depictions of heteronormative sex, but that's a whole other topic.
Likewise, these authors have contended that most depictions of neo-liberal ideas and practices tend to overlook their instability and the possibility of them being re-appropriated and transformed over time and space.
These one-note depictions drive home the idea that virginity is a thing someone (a.k.a. a man) "takes" from a woman and always in the same, penetrative way.
Panel 2, Interchange, on this month's cover, is a dramatic depiction of Woodruff's ideas as well as style.
The exemplary depiction of that idea is in the Red Ridingwood episode in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Last Tycoon".
The First Amendment was violated by a law that "prohibits the visual depiction of an idea," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said in the 2002 decision.
