Any filmmaker's (or any artist's) self-explanations should be taken, if not skeptically, at least separately not as explanations of the work but as a parallel track of thought and creation, as artworks in themselves.
Any filmmaker's (or any artist's) self-explanations should be taken, if not skeptically, at least separately — not as explanations of the work but as a parallel track of thought and creation, as artworks in themselves.
But her essay contains what might be the seed of self-explanation, if not quite apology.
The playing community's support and advice exists in place of the usual tutorials and self-explanation of other games.
If the interviews with Lanzmann offered Murmelstein a chance at self-explanation, self-justification, and belated exoneration, they also, Murmelstein said on film, represented a "danger".
Well, if you are confronting this circumstance in a Jerry Bruckheimer television production, you offer up extraneous self-explanation.
It is a struggle not for self-explanation but for self-justification: I'm sorry this is happening but, really, they drove me to it.
Characters who remain mysteries to themselves in the novel are here allowed moments of self-analysis and self-explanation that Dr. Phil might applaud.
"Frost/Nixon" is about the struggle to control historical memory, with television the medium, self-explanation the means, and redemption the prize.
These efforts at self-explanation add a new layer to an elaborate tradition of explaining practice and doctrine that dates to the 1st millennium bce.
"I would say that about one-quarter of the essays so far constitute self-explanation for curious outsiders," Mr. Judt wrote in an e-mail message.
