Anthony Rocha asks about mise-en-scene.
Have a look at V. Nizhny, Lessons With Eisenstein, in which you will find
Nizhny's class notes from his classes with Eisenstein. The sections on
mise-en-scene and mise-en-shot are particularly useful. Ivan The
Terrible, and Alexander Nevsky are useful examples. You might also
want to look at Welles' Touch of Evil, Kolatozov's I Am Cuba,
Frankenheimer's Manchurian Candidate, or the ways in which Conrad Hall
composed the images for American Beauty. If you watch television, try
West Wing or Sopranos or ER to see how mise-en-scene works on the small
screen. In all of these examples, there's a lot more there than initially
meets the eye.
-Henry Breitrose
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