In short, "Deep in the Shade of Paradise" contains a good deal of faux-naïf posturing about authorial identities, the storytelling itself, the characters speaking for themselves and so on.
His first feature, La Meilleure Façon de Marcher (The Best Way to Walk, 1976), was a sardonic, neatly made tale of sexual identity and male posturing, telling how an instructor (Patrick Dewaere) at a summer camp for boys accidentally discovers another counsellor (Patrick Bouchitey) in make-up and drag, then sets about bullying him mercilessly – but the victim gets the girl.
There is not a trace of anachronism in the Pearl's production to prod such comparisons, just a deep understanding of the text, revealing how contemporary Wilde can seem in this endlessly funny comedy about courtship, hidden identities and social posturing among deliciously superficial people.
Founded by Winter Mendelson in 2013, Posture is a digital and print platform exploring identity, gender, and sexuality through fashion and art.
Like the portraits created several decades before by German photographer August Sander (1876 1964), Struth's photographs reveal identity, history, and (often) psychological state through posture and gesture, dress, and the subjects' physical environment.
Stripped of the stigma and posturing of being a millionaire, you can literally see how dropping their identity leads to letting go of their fears.
British nationalism – British identity, Britishness – had become an unconscious reflex rather than a deliberate political posture.
For ordinary Germans, the only identity on show was a fascist identity in fascist costume and fascist postures of domination or obedience.
Such posturing presents us with the advantages and drawbacks of using religion as a foundation for national identity.
Maybe the lumbering economy has spurred the team to strengthen its identity, but the clothes looked more in line with the designers' original ideas about the supremacy of posturing southern Italian men.
