mise en scène
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French mise en scène (literally “placing on stage”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌmizɑ̃ˈsɛn/, enPR: mizäɴsĕn′
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun edit
mise en scène (plural mises en scène or mise en scènes)
- 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; […]
- (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 edit
- mise en cadre
- mise en shot (= mise en cadre)
Translations edit
physical environment; surroundings
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arrangement of props and actors on a stage or for film
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Further reading edit
- mise-en-scène on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French edit
Etymology edit
From mettre en scène.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mise en scène f (plural mises en scène)
- mise en scène (arrangement on a stage)
- contextualization (creation of a context for a story)
- false flag (staged event)
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Portuguese edit
Noun edit
mise en scène f (plural mises en scène)
- Alternative spelling of mise-en-scène