mise-en-scene

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“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

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

Although her attitude was one of rather sleepy repose, there were signs of a hasty rearrangement of the mise en scène, which corroborated the aural evidence which reached him in the hall.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 by Various