19 September 2016
mise en scène
[mee zahn sen]
noun, French.
1. the process of setting a stage, with regard to placement of actors, scenery, properties, etc.
2. the stage setting or scenery of a play.
3. surroundings; environment.
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Examples from the Web for mise en scène
Contemporary Examples
But the master manipulator of mise-en-scène is back to what he does best in his fifth feature.
Michel Gondry on ‘Mood Indigo,’ Kanye West, and the 10th Anniversary of ‘Eternal Sunshine’
Marlow Stern
July 19, 2014
Historical Examples
Since nothing was altered in the mise-en-scène of their love, why should their love itself be changed?
The Child of Pleasure
Gabriele D’Annunzio
There is no pose about this town, no mise-en-scène, no stage-setting.
Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome
Apicius
There is no mise-en-scène, no searching after recondite ideas, with Verrocchio.
A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools
Various
It would seem that the dramatists have not so much influence in the matter of mise-en-scène as they might wish.
The English Stage
Augustin Filon
At any rate, the above lonely landmarks cannot affect our comprehensive estimate of the mise-en-scène.
The Dramatic Values in Plautus
Wilton Wallace Blancke
Only their uniforms, the ribands and decorations, the mise-en-scène render them tolerable imitations of the average military man.
Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess
Henry W. Fischer
Thus the mise-en-scène of the Lubliner closing was excellent.
Elkan Lubliner, American
Montague Glass
The mise-en-scène is then excellent, and Browning was always careful to make it right, fitting and enlivening.
The Poetry Of Robert Browning
Stopford A. Brooke
The brilliant picture before him became the mise-en-scène of an opera, the babble of voices its chorus.
A Daughter of the Vine
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Anagram
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Today’s quote
Try not to become a man of success but rather become a man of value.
– Albert Einstein
On this day
19 September – International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
19 September 1952 – Charlie Chaplin exiled from the United States because of his anti-war and humanitarian beliefs which conflicted with McCarthy’s ‘reds under the bed’ policy.
19 September 1959 – USSR President Nikita Khrushchev banned from visiting Disneyland … ironically 31 years after Mickey Mouse debuted on screen. The reason given was that the Los Angeles Police Chief couldn’t provide adequate security.
19 September 1982 – birth of the emoticon. At 11.44am on this day, a computer scientist by the name of Scott Fahlman suggested on a bulletin board forum that the now iconic 🙂 be used to indicate a post was ‘not serious’. It has now come to also mean happy, as well as not serious for when people post comments, emails etc … or when they think a smiley will help ease a flame …
19 September 2003 – death of Slim Dusty AO, MBE, Australian country music singer, song-writer and producer. He was born as David Gordon Kirkpatrick and adopted the name of Slim Dusty at 11 years of age. He released his first record when he was 18. In 1957, he released ‘The Pub With No Beer‘, which became the biggest selling Australian song to that time, and the first Australian single to go gold. He won 36 Golden Guitar Awards at the Tamworth Country Music Festival. In 2000, he recorded his 100th album, ‘Looking Forward, Looking Back‘. He is the only artist in the world to have recorded 100 albums with the same record label (EMI). Born 13 June 1927.