Word: mises
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...rare in theater. I am sure that tonight's performance of The Days of the Commune will measure up, on the whole, as a success-if only for this robust fusion of music and dramatic spectacle. In Sanders, the slide-show of period engravings and photographs should make the mise en scene more convincing-and, with a little more coordination of scene changes, less awkward. In any event, Brecht, Eisler, Lehrman and his company merit the whole University's attention. Tonight may be a sequel to the teach-in. It may be something more...
...THINGS are there," Rossellini has said. "Why manipulate them?" To this end he has restrained his camera, withholding it at the limits of impartiality. His mise en scene is open and anti-compositional. Improvisational. Accidental. Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as events of everyday life. He is the antithesis of baroque, while the famous royal style of Louis XIV is baroque itself. Baroque elevated to the level of classicism. Dramaturgy, glorifying in each new detail it brings under its sway...
...Thulin and her contrite Bogarde employs dialogue no real person ever uttered. Visconti offers us human passions and errors on a grander scale than the realistic. Thus his blocking of scenes, which is heavy and slow, focuses dramatic energy inward onto the relationships of the Essenbeck family. Visconti's mise-en-scene is equally grandiose, incorporating massive interiors and immense spaces. It helps integrate the characters into one pattern of contrary emotional drives. The film's confinement within one mansion becomes the best way to maintain intense and unified oppositions of personal lust...
...dramatic situation are unified with his general view of life and conception of drama by the continuous development of the characters' situations we see on the screen. Films actually do what novels only metaphorically do to create a drama: put characters in situations. The fact that film requires mise-enscene explains everything. It also makes Lola Montes possible, for the film is above all the development of a character in physical settings. Film does exactly what the circus acts do--realize an ideal conception of drama and character, and abstract view of life. LOla Montes' flashback structure gives its mise...
...distorting history when he describes the rebellion as "the only effective sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery"; they maintain that there were numerous others. They dispute Styron's judgment that the rebellion was put down with the help of loyal slaves. They bitterly question the mise en scene that depicts most slaves as complaisant plantation Sambos; on the contrary, say the critics, the slaves were constantly plotting insurrections. Finally, they complain that Styron in effect emasculated Turner by portraying him as a celibate harboring onanistic fantasies, whereas the truth, according to Styron's critics, is that Turner...