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
Obama appeared on screen, the final speaker on the first night of the Democratic convention, to deliver her talk in a beige-colored room that had been blurred into an impersonal mise-en-scene.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2020
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
But the revival at Signature Theatre, despite a luxe period mise en scene and robust demonstrations of vocal authority, now strikes a spectator as pat and overly sentimental.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 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
"Oh, no, I thought it a mere mise en scene."
From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
The mise en scène is sumptuously prepared with flourishes of rococo drollery.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
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
When you see that she’s clutching a wrinkly brown paper bag, the mise en scène becomes somehow sadder.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 8, 2018
But watch out for the gliding staircases that will soon become a crucial part of the mise en scène.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2018
We accordingly find that the main incidents and characters of his novels have here their mise en scène.
From Rambles in Dickens' Land by Robert Allbut
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
