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
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
The heroic temper, which was at once the essence of Corneille's plays and true to the very soul of the man, was mere affectation and mise-en-scene with Dryden.
From English literary criticism by Various
I went to film school, where I learned words like "auteur" and "mise en scene."
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2021
Chavkin, who supervised the creation of the stunning mise en scene for Broadway’s “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,” reminds audiences in the Walter Kerr of her remarkable eye.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 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
Most boys who read romances have the dramatic instinct; they must forthwith incarnate the memories of their reading, and anything will do for a mise en scene.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
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
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
If the term mise en scène were as applicable to books as to dramas, it might be truely said of Mr. Putnam's that they appear as well between boards as other works do upon them.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 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
