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Mise-en-Scene
meez-ahn-SEN
Film Technique
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Everything placed before the camera and how it is arranged: setting, lighting, costume, staging and movement within the frame. Borrowed from the theatre, the term names the half of film art that happens in the shot rather than between shots, and film criticism has long paired it against montage.
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Formulated YearThe term derives from theatrical usage but became a codified concept of film criticism through the French magazine Cahiers du Cinema, founded in 1951; no single essay or year fixed its film-critical definition. Concept Domain Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Encyclopedia Britannica
2. New World Encyclopedia
New World Encyclopedia (Paragon House)Cahiers du Cinema entry, Cahiers and the auteur theory sectionQuote, Cahiers du Cinema entry, Cahiers and the auteur theory section
the director should use the commercial apparatus the way a writer uses a pen and, through the mise en scene, imprint his vision on the work.
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