Kidulthood has had some criticism, from those who accuse it of being unbelievably bleak or, weirdly, voyeuristic (as though we're only allowed to watch films that directly depict our own lives).
Some people may choose an image which represents but doesn't directly depict them (e.g. a cropped picture of their eyes), or which says something about their background, perspective, values or interests (for example, a particular colour or symbol like a leaf, flag or a team crest).
In using animation, Folman directly depicts that process at work.
Whether obliquely conjured up or directly depicted, urban life, especially architecture, seems to be the theme of this show.
In putting together "September 11," a group show mounted last fall at PS1 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the attacks, Mr. Eleey avoided work that directly depicted the events themselves, which for some viewers is still taboo.
You'll have seen this in earlier drafts, but I tend these days to leave out as much backstory as I can, to see how much of a character you can get across in the living field of the directly depicted moment.
With a rash of shows like AMC's Preacher and Bounce TV's Sinners & Saint's turning to the pulpit to provide viewers with some drama, Greenleaf is the only one that directly depicts the black mega-church.
As was rather graphically and directly depicted in both the film and book versions of Game Change -- as well as in my own book, The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power -- Palin went through something akin to a psychological breakdown in the aftermath of her disastrous interview with Katie Couric (and just prior to her debate with Joe Biden).
Here we initially show that directly depicting the evolutionary relationships of teleost MyoD orthologues and paralogues is hindered by the asymmetric evolutionary rate of Acanthopterygian MyoD2 relative to other MyoD proteins.
In those studies, the presence of luteal tissue was monitored indirectly using serial P4 measurements in blood or milk, rather than directly depicting luteal tissue using sonography.
This study directly depicts STAT3-mediated miRNA profiles in CRC cells, which provides a possible way to discover biomarkers for CRC therapy.
