Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Styles of filmmaking have changed greatly from classical Hollywood through to our digital era. So, too, have the ways in which film critics and scholars have analysed these transformations in film style. This book explores two central style concepts, mise en scene and dispositif, to illuminate a wide range of film and new media examples.
Synopsis
Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Prologue: At the Ballet Ruse 1. A Term That Means Everything, and Nothing Very Specific 2. Aesthetic Economies: The Expressive and the Excessive 3. What Was Mise en sc ne? 4. The Crises (1): Squeezed and Stretched 5. The Crises (2): The Style It Takes 6. Sonic Spaces 7. A Detour via Reality: Social Mise en sc ne 8. Cinema, Audiovisual Art of the 21st Century 9. The Rise of the Dispositif Epilogue: Five Minutes and 15 Seconds with Ritwik Ghatak Notes Bibliography