Tag Archives: mise-en-scène

Pretty Pictures: Production Design and the History Film – capsule

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Aaron

C. S. Tashiro’s Pretty Pictures: Production Design and the History Film isn’t really about production design – at least not like some of the other texts I’ve reviewed here. While the term “production design” clearly features in the title, and the monograph … Continue reading →

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Mise-en-Scène: Film Style and Interpretation – capsule review

Posted on July 7, 2020 by Aaron

Mise-en-scène can be a thorny critical area for students and scholars of production design. Nearly seventy years after its deployment by the critics of Cahiers du Cinéma, the term still carries the baggage of auteurism. Much of the scholarly writing on … Continue reading →

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