mise-en-scene

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 Scorsese via Buster Keaton: Trump’s mock mug filled the screen for a second before it fell into a waste bin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2021

They take stuff willy-nilly – the hairstyle, the look, the gestures, the mise-en-scene, the choreography.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2018

With regard to the mise-en-scene something might be said; yet it would be unfair not to speak in praise of the merits of the manager, Herr Genast.

From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso by Constance Bache

Once there, I barely recognized the mise en scene I’d detailed in the novel.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022

I went to film school, where I learned words like "auteur" and "mise en scene."

From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2021

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

And lastly, we are treated to a real dialogue, with quite a dramatic mise en scene.

From The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske

The mise en scène is sumptuously prepared with flourishes of rococo drollery.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

Dress up as a detective, create a crime scene on your stoop, tape it off with caution tape, and then toss candy out from within your mise en scène.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2020

Abbott and Vicary coached the development team to be “brand ambassadors,” who insure that each element of a production has a distinctive Hallmark feel, down to the decorative mise en scène.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019

The signature of an auteur is more like a faint palimpsest visible underneath a film’s action, editing, mise en scène, etc., as opposed to a bold, conspicuous graffiti tag.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2017

The mise en scène of this act has been already presented; and, as often on the stage, it is again repeated; with but little change in the dramatis personae.

From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid

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