mise-en-scene
Example Sentences
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“With her sense of immediacy and mise en scène, she’s created a mode of participation in which you are required to be present, to participate.”
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2021
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
Dress up as a detective, create a crime scene on your stoop, tape it off with caution tape, and then toss candy out from within your mise en scène.
From Slate • Sep. 29, 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
We accordingly find that the main incidents and characters of his novels have here their mise en scène.
From Rambles in Dickens' Land by Allbut, Robert