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 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
Lassen and Baron Loen will continue to correspond with you concerning the mise-en-scene of Quentin Durward at Weimar.
From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End 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
Nor is there anywhere in the Laws that lively enargeia, that vivid mise en scene, which is as characteristic of Plato as of some modern novelists.
From Laws by Benjamin Jowett
The mise en scène is sumptuously prepared with flourishes of rococo drollery.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
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
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
That the mise en scène is perfect, goes without saying, as this Opera has been produced by that past master of stage-direction, the one and only Augustus Druriolanus.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 by Various
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
