Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until now, she said, the public has tended to base its conceptions on what it sees rather than on what it hears whenever visual and aural information have conflicted. "I'm wondering if something natural might not happen as [the public] worries about the economy," she said. "Maybe they will want to hear TV sound more than they want to see TV visuals...
...imagination, steeped in classical and European traditions, seems familiar and accessible to Western readers. Brodsky is a lyricist of loss, of the slipping away of the past, loved ones, youth; his customary tone is one of passion tempered by hard-earned irony. His poems rely heavily on visual impressions, as in this look at the scenery surrounding a state farm: "The horses, inflated casks/ of ribs trapped between shafts,/ snap at the rusted harrows/ with gnashing profiles." Such concrete images can survive the transition from Russian to English with much of their freshness intact. To write his poems, Brodsky still...
That includes a premium on visual effects and an emphasis on rudimentary characterization, both earmarks of immature writing and feature films, where the bulk of the audience is under 25. Only the future can tell which young writers will be ready to bleed for their art and which will continue to write with ice-cold Perrier in their veins. But current evidence indicates a considerable potential for a fiction of arrested development. Says Thomas Bender, head of the history department of New York University and author of the recent cultural history New York Intellect: "If the world is willing...
With sharp visual images, von Trotta brings the complex character of Luxemburg closer to the audience. Numerous close-ups establish the communist radical as a figure worthy of sympathy. but these are not the soft focus, flattering close-ups of a romantic film. They are hard and lucid glances, sharp swords of realism which dispel the aura of godliness the film's plot gives Luxemburg...
...showing the same program as the firstaudience saw," said Petric, who teaches Visual andEnvironmental Studies (VES) 157r, "Classics ofWorld Cinema...