Word: visual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film that concentrates on characterization, "The Accompanist" is surprisingly spares in dialogue. This dearth is amply commpensated through visual and musical means. Frequently the camera focused on the face of a single character of several seconds at a time, revealing subtle change of expression music, as in one scene in which Irene and Sophie rehearse. In this episode, unlike those of most movies featuring piano players, the camera picks out only the characters' faces, not even expending a single shot on Sophie's hands...
...individual .Irene is seen only from the outside, through the eyes of her husband and Sophie, while Sophie herself, who, almost pressed into the position of indentured servant, should be the most sympathetic character, seems so devoid of human emotion that she is as colorless in personality as in visual depiction. The audience perceives the principal characters as they perceive each other, solely through sight and sound...
...Visual sound-bite: Athletic team posters in the dining hall. Nuff said...
...number of students choosing to concentrate in Visual and Environmental Studies has dropped by 50 percent over the past two years, and the department's administrators offer little explanation for the plummeting enrollment...
...College has not always realized the importance of the visual media, said Barbara Norfleet, a senior lecturer in the VES department and faculty advisor to the new publication...