mise-en-scene
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I often say what interested me with the mise-en-scene was to allow the viewer to live the experience.
From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2023
A showbusiness legend and an award-winning director, Streisand undoubtedly knows the effect her mise-en-scene will create.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2021
The mise-en-scene was explicitly modern: Roman centurions as immigration officers; Herod sleepless and fearful in a velvet bathrobe; a narrator in blazer and tennis shoes.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2019
They take stuff willy-nilly – the hairstyle, the look, the gestures, the mise-en-scene, the choreography.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2018
The mise-en-scene does not require any special efforts; the piece only requires a somewhat piquant and not unskillful soprano singer.
From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso by Constance Bache
I went to film school, where I learned words like "auteur" and "mise en scene."
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2021
Perhaps the simple mise en scene is meant to assist in the illusion of deconstruction, but it’s more useful in lowering performative expectations.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2019
His most recent two films feature muted palettes, claustrophobic mise en scene, and a straightforward storytelling approach.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2012
Courtney Weisman, 22 years old, said she gets annoyed when she catches herself staring at her neighbor's mise en scene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2010
Its beautiful orchestral execution, and the extremely careful and effective mise en scene, gave me a grand idea of the great possibilities of such perfect and definite artistic means.
From My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner
The mise en scène is sumptuously prepared with flourishes of rococo drollery.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
“With her sense of immediacy and mise en scène, she’s created a mode of participation in which you are required to be present, to participate.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
I was looking for something complex — a woman's story, a thriller, a genre movie — something powerful, with space to direct and work on the mise en scène.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2021
Many are filmed by the tantrummers themselves, staging their moments of resistance with an eye toward narrative, drama, mise en scène.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2020
She seemed more composed, more sure of herself, now that she had been out in the yard and seen the whole mise en scène of the tragedy, which before that she had only vaguely imagined.
From A Bride of the Plains by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
The songs are rapid mise-en-scènes, with Whack as mordant narrator, as if she’d been plucked from a rambunctious but meditative teen movie.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 1, 2018
From salt and pepper shakers to cookie jars to Freudian mise-en-scènes, Steinbach’s work pulls from so much that’s recognizable, but always shifted or shuffled a bit.
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2017
Although the productions featured impressive sets and lighting, the efforts did not pay off because of cumbersome mise-en-scènes and emotional flatness.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2010
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