Mise-en-scène: Film Style and Interpretation
"Mise-en-scène: Film Style and Interpretation" explores and elucidates constructions of this fundamental concept in thinking about film. In uncovering the history of mise-en-scène within film criticism, and through the detailed exploration of scenes from films as "Imitation of Life" and "Lone Star, " John Gibbs makes the case for the importance of a sensitive understanding of film style, and provides an introduction to the skills of close reading. This book thus celebrates film-making as well as film criticism that is alive to the creative possibilities of visual style.
- Author
- John Gibbs
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- Wallflower Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781903364062
- Genres
- film
- Release date
- 2002
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