Mise en Scène and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art (Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television)

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 scène and dispositif, to illuminate a wide range of film and new media examples. "Styles of filmmaking have changed greatly from the classical Hollywood system, with its emphasis on narrative and character, to the current digital era of YouTube and installation art, where audiovisual spectacle takes command. The ways in which film critics and scholars have analysed these transformations in film style have also often changed. This book explores two central style concepts from the history of audiovisual criticism and theory, mise en scène and dispositif, to illuminate a wide range of film and new media examples. It argues that we need an open, inclusive and truly international approach to understand anew both old and current film and media works"-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xviii A Term That Means Everything, and Nothing Very Specific....Pages 1-20 Aesthetic Economies: The Expressive and the Excessive....Pages 21-42 What Was Mise en scène?....Pages 43-73 The Crises (1): Squeezed and Stretched....Pages 74-94 The Crises (2): The Style It Takes....Pages 95-107 Sonic Spaces....Pages 108-126 A Detour via Reality: Social Mise en scène....Pages 127-154 Cinema, Audiovisual Art of the 21st Century....Pages 155-177 The Rise of the Dispositif....Pages 178-204 Epilogue: Five Minutes and Fifteen Seconds with Ritwik Ghatak....Pages 205-216 Back Matter....Pages 217-235