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:	9781903364062
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	03/06/2002
Series:	Short Cuts
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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