Word: mise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of this prize committee was Novelist Alain (The Voyeur) Robbe-Grillet, and the winner was one of Robbe-Grillet's disciples in the school of "New Realism" (TIME, Oct. 13), which stresses objects and description rather than people and motivation. Winner Claude Ollier's La Mise En Scéne offered "interminable descriptions that spare you nothing and then, without ever seeming to take sides, crush you under the weight of inhuman detail." A mining engineer's efforts to make sense out of the remote mountains of North Africa, to lint his murdered predecessor with...
When Author Keyes showed Victorine's first chapters to her British publisher, he came back with: "I am very much pleased with your mise-en-scène. However, I'd like it a little more bloodcurdling. Couldn't you have a murder in the rice fields...
Most sophisticated Americans-however anti-Communist- pretty well shared the overseas Dim View of our politics . . . The melodramatic mise en scene [was] made familiar to us by the creative imaginations of our most highly regarded social dramatists, novelists, forward-looking historians, social scientists, editors and journalists of the '20s on, both before and after the Popular Front dispensation...
Enthusiasm, Knox decides, is basically the "revolt of Platonism against the Aristotelian mise en scene of traditional Christianity . . . Your Platonist, satisfied that he had formed his notion of God without the aid of syllogisms or analogies, will divorce reason from religion . . . the God who reveals Himself interiorly claims a wholly interior worship as his right" instead of observing traditional Christianity's balance of doctrine and emphasis...