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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