mise en scène

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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

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

Dissolution is the atmosphere, the mise en scène, for virtually all his songs.

From The Guardian • Nov. 25, 2016

Then warming to their work, and with their dramatic Slav imaginations charmed with the mise en scène, they emptied all their rifles into the air.

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)