mise en scene

For example, Ira Jaffe's Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action (2014) outlines an international trend toward long takes, long shots, austere mise-en-scene, and the lack of emotion and affect, a cinema where "nothing happens," which includes such diverse filmmakers as Jim Jarmusch (United States), Alexander Sokurov (Russia), Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey), Cristian Mungiu (Romania), Lisandro Alonso (Argentina), Pedro Costa (Portugal), Abbas Kiarostami (Iran), Jia Zhang-ke (China), and Bela Tarr (Hungary) (among others) (Jaffe 1-3).

By paying attention to the subtle changes within the frame, Jaffe's analysis of mise-en-scene contends with the challenges of feeling at home common to slow movies.

At times, Wertmuller's portrayal of reality may seem absurd; this, however, is the consequence of her careful intermingling of realism and expressionism in the mise-en-scene.

Chapter two goes into some detail on how these different components of mise-en-scene interact with each other, using Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996) as an extended example.

Furthermore, the construction of this particular mise-en-scene is illustrative of Foucault's concept of the "spatialization of power," as formulated by Edward Soja, in which cultural hierarchies are mapped onto specific landscapes (21).

Moving away from the scholarly preoccupation with stereotypes of the Asian figure, King mines mise-en-scene instead for Orientalist signifiers.

Notwithstanding the simplicity of the device, photographing with this "Caravana Obscura" amounts to a paradoxical process of still moviemaking, complete with lengthy location-spotting, meticulous mise-en-scene (via the positioning of the camper), and one long, lensless sequence shot (three to six hours or more), which "films" the passage of time on a sheet of color-reversal paper inside the camper.

Is the choreography of a ballet no more important than the mise-en-scene of a play or opera?

Once public theater had worked out a general mise-en-scene, the pattern spread and persisted, on the Bankside, on tour, and at court.

Writer and director Scott Smith has assured cinematic sense of pace and design, and an imaginative approach to mise-en-scene.

As we turn from the domestic mise-en-scene, we find exemplified in the poem "Ambush" Komunyakaa's skill in depicting a Vietnam combat situation.

The music of the ballet was there, safe and, I suppose one might say, sound, but dances to that music were often regarded as a useful adjunct, rather as the mise-en-scene of an opera, and the choreographer and opera director had roles that many--including most composers--thought entirely comparable.

I imagined the Chittendens as a clan or secret society of pre-Microsoft middle managers, and began to develop a mise-en-scene conflating Veblen and the insurance agency's maritime iconography.

They most obviously appear in his often concise, lushly dramatic treatment of the mise-en-scene.

10 THREE TIMES (HOU HSIAO-HSIEN) With Hou's focus on filmic duration, mise-en-scene becomes everything, leaving narrative in the lurch.