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A 7 page research paper that discusses the cinematic term "mise-en-scene," and how it applies to three films, Easy Rider, Clockwork Orange and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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scholarship has extended the use of this term to include film direction, and it has come to also include the directors control over what appears in the film frame (Bordwell
and Thompson 75). As would be expected from this terms origin in the theater, mise-en-scene includes those "aspects that overlap with the art of the theater: setting, lighting, costume, and
the behavior of the figures" (Bordwell and Thompson 75). The director, through controlling the elements that make up the mise-en-scene, stages the action that the camera sees (Bordwell and Thompson
75). Therefore, it can be seen that is an all-purpose term that encompasses all the technical aspects of filmmaking, which determine how not only what happens in a scene, but
how it is perceived, i.e. whether it is scary, romantic, suspenseful, etc. Mise-en-scene can change during a film, depending on the purposes of the scene to the overall narrative. While
there are numerous factors that make up mise-en-scene, this examination will focus on just three -- costuming, setting, and camera work. Framing the scene, implies that the camera is
placed so that there is an "angle of vision" with respect to what is shown (Bordwell and Thompson 115). It, therefore, positions the audience to the shots mise-en-scene (Bordwell and
Thompson 115). The number of possible angles is infinite since there are an infinite number of points in space that the camera can occupy. Another basic element of mise-en-scene
is setting. Since the earliest days of cinema, critics and audiences have seen the setting as playing an active role in the mise-en-scene (Bordwell and Thompson 78). The filmmaker controls
setting in a number of different ways. For example, director Erich Von Stroheim took great pride in researching every detail of a locale, while others rely on shooting on location
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