Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The entire scenery, properties, and detail of an acted play; hence, the surroundings of any event.
Wiktionary
- n. Physical environment; surroundings.
- n. The arrangement of props and actors on a stage or for film.
Etymologies
- From the French mise en scène. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Has it occurred to you, if the lethal injection was given during the operation, how extraordinarily favourable the mise en scène was for the murderer?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mise en scène’.
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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Tricky Words from French
Loanwords from French -- both established and wet behind the ears -- that are tricky to spell or pronounce properly.
trompe l'oeil, hors d'oeuvre, oeuvre, objet d'art, objet trouvé, contretemps, milieu, métier, mise en scène, mise en place, éclat, faineant and 64 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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madamepsychosis's Words
mollify, salubrious, prandial, coup de grace, ineluctable, metempsychosis, pedant, conatus, oeuvre, laconic, solipsism, vapid and 265 more...
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Rita's List of Words
preliminary, rudimentary, stance, conduit, locale, implicit, vicissitude, empirical, repository, apophthegm, apothegm, invariable and 431 more...
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nfrank's Words
antediluvian, equivocate, inchoate, denouement, effulgent, edify, endemic, palimpsest, apropos, circumnavigate, circumlocution, cognoscente and 484 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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Literary / Aesthetic
Gongorism, paracinema, avantronica, arrière-garde, chrestomathy, diorama, philological, ideographic, daguerreotype, litterateur, pasticcio, mimeticism and 59 more...
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Won's list
piquant, saudade, maudlin, synecdoche, dainty, damnatio memoriae, cryptomnesia, apropos, vis-à-vis, amuse bouche, mise en place, mise en scène and 33 more...
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cinephilia
mise en scène, cinematography, dailies, pilottone, mixing house, internegative, diopter, anamorphic
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possible blog title words
eisegesis, haplography, mise en scène, synecdoche, mise en abyme, zeugma, peripatetic, chrysalism, etymonic
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