mise-en-scène

motion-picture style

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motion-picture history

  • Vitascope
    In History of film: France

    …depth, or what he called mise-en-scène. Borrowed from the theater, this term literally means “the placing in the scene,” but Bazin used it to designate such elements of filmic structure as camera placement and movement, the lighting of shots, and blocking of action—that is, everything that precedes the editing process.

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