As Newsome is a master of videography, the visuals that accompany the mix are as transfixing as we'd expect: dancing girls, densely packed limbs and plenty of dazzling bling.
Or maybe to rethink what we mean by history and set her up with Ken Burns and thank them both for bringing the past into the 21st-century -- Burns, the master of the long-form visual sentimental; Vowell of the short-form, auditory ironic.
They're oblivious as well to camera movement, blocking, lighting and all the filmmaking rest, remaining stubbornly visually unevolved, the monotony of the two shots, over-the-shoulder shots and master shots the visual equivalent of bad minimalist music.
For the photographer Lee Friedlander, a master of visual intricacy, the conventional still-life genre extends to shadows cast by trees, litter strewn on curbs, and reflections in storefront windows.
Denis has shown herself in the past to be the master of visual effects and long but captivating wordless scenes: in Beau Travail and the excellent Vendredi Soir, erotic obsession is shown on much more persuasive terms.
Tom Cochran, the master of visual aids, has 15 pounds of depleted uranium that he keeps in a Coke can; an eight-pack would be plenty to build a bomb.
But if Scott was the master of seductive visuals, Parker injected his cinema with a scabrous, risk-taking energy, hopping like a flea from one high-octane project to another.
Eisner became a master of the short-story form, using every visual and verbal element to enhance the moods and emotions in his compact morality tales.
Castaing-Taylor earned a master of arts in visual anthropology from the University of Southern California and a doctorate in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley.
