mise en scène

See also: mise en scene, mise-en-scene, and mise-en-scène

English

Alternative forms

• mise-en-scène, mise en scene

Etymology

Borrowed from French mise en scène (literally “placing on stage”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmizɑ̃ˈsɛn/, enPR: mizäɴsĕn′

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

mise en scène (plural mises en scène or mise en scènes)

1. Physical environment; surroundings.
   • 1897, Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman Jr., “The Library, Smoking-room, and “Den””, in The Decoration of Houses, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 151:

     The smoking-room proper, with its mise en scène of Turkish divans, narghilehs, brass coffee-trays, and other Oriental properties, is no longer considered a necessity in the modern house; […]

2. (film, theater) The arrangement of props and actors on a stage or for film.
   • 1995 June 27, Michiko Kakutani, “Playing Pygmalion to a Hermeneutic Computer”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Although this mise en scène may sound like a contrived “Twilight Zone” setup, it provides Mr. Powers with the perfect opportunity to show off his virtuosic skills as a writer […]

   • 1998: H. Robert Cohen, Original Staging Manuals for Ten Parisian Operatic Premières, 1824–1843, page xiii (Pendragon Press; →ISBN, 0945193610):

     For reasons explained in the previous volume, noticeably absent are mises en scène representing productions at the Théâtre-Italien.

   • 2010, Paul Matthew St, E. A. Dupont and His Contribution to British Film, Pierre: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, page 173:

     Dupont interrupts the continuity of the master narrative of lighthouse-keeping and marital and extramarital love with visually arresting mise-en-scènes and mise-en-shots.

   • 2013, Patrice Pavis, translated by Joel Anderson, Contemporary Mise en Scène‎^[2], Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pages 9–10:

     This is also the point at which mise en scène no longer simply describes the passage of a text to the stage, but rather encompasses the autonomous organisation of the theatre work, the 'synthetic' vision of theatre and of mise en scène which is the subject of an accomplished study by Guido Hiss.

Related terms

• mise en cadre
• mise en shot (= mise en cadre)

Translations

physical environment; surroundings

• Finnish: ympäristö (fi)
• French: mise en scène (fr) f
• Russian: мизансце́на (ru) f (mizanscéna)

arrangement of props and actors on a stage or for film

• Bulgarian: мизансце́н (bg) m (mizanscén)
• Czech: insenace f
• Danish: iscenesættelse c
• Finnish: näyttämöllepano
• French: mise en scène (fr) f
• Georgian: მიზანსცენა (mizanscena)
• German: Regie (de) f, Mise-en-scène (de) f
• Greek: σκηνοθεσία (el) f (skinothesía)
• Italian: messinscena (it) f
• Japanese: ミザンセーヌ (mizansēnu)
• Korean: 미장센 (mijangsen)
• Persian: میزانسن (fa) (mizânsen)
• Portuguese: mise-en-scène f, encenação f
• Russian: мизансце́на (ru) f (mizanscéna), инсцениро́вка (ru) f (insceniróvka)
• Spanish: puesta en escena f

Further reading

• mise-en-scène on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From mettre en scène.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.z‿ɑ̃ sɛn/

• Audio

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Noun

mise en scène f (plural mises en scène)

1. mise en scène (arrangement on a stage)
2. contextualization (creation of a context for a story)
3. false flag (staged event)

Related terms

• metteur en scène

Portuguese

Noun

mise en scène f (plural mises en scène)

1. Alternative spelling of mise-en-scène