Mise-en-scène: Film Style and Interpretation

by John Gibbs

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231503112
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	08/14/2012
Series:	Short Cuts
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

John Gibbs is lecturer in film and television studies at the London College of Printing, the London Institute.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The Elements of Mise-en-Scène
2. The Interaction of Elements
3. Coherent Relationships
4. Investigations in the Critical History of Mise-en-Scène
5. Mise-en-Scène and Melodrama
6. Case Study: Imitation of Life
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index