mise-en-scèneの英語

語源

Borrowed from French mise en scène (字義どおりに “placing on stage”).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˌmizɑ̃ˈsɛn/, enPR: mizäɴsĕn′

名詞

mise en scène (複数形 mises en scène または mise en scènes)

1. Physical environment; surroundings.
   • 1897, Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman Jr., “The Library, Smoking-room, and “Den””, in The Decoration of Houses, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 151:

     The smoking-room proper, with its mise en scène of Turkish divans, narghilehs, brass coffee-trays, and other Oriental properties, is no longer considered a necessity in the modern house; […]

2. (film, theater) The arrangement of props and actors on a stage or for film.
   • 1995 June 27, Michiko Kakutani, “Playing Pygmalion to a Hermeneutic Computer”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Although this mise en scène may sound like a contrived “Twilight Zone” setup, it provides Mr. Powers with the perfect opportunity to show off his virtuosic skills as a writer […]

   • 1998: H. Robert Cohen, Original Staging Manuals for Ten Parisian Operatic Premières, 1824–1843, page xiii (Pendragon Press; →ISBN, 0945193610):

     For reasons explained in the previous volume, noticeably absent are mises en scène representing productions at the Théâtre-Italien.

   • 2010, Paul Matthew St, E. A. Dupont and His Contribution to British Film, Pierre: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, page 173:

     Dupont interrupts the continuity of the master narrative of lighthouse-keeping and marital and extramarital love with visually arresting mise-en-scènes and mise-en-shots.

   • 2013, Patrice Pavis, translated by Joel Anderson, Contemporary Mise en Scène‎^[2], Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pages 9–10:

     This is also the point at which mise en scène no longer simply describes the passage of a text to the stage, but rather encompasses the autonomous organisation of the theatre work, the 'synthetic' vision of theatre and of mise en scène which is the subject of an accomplished study by Guido Hiss.

関連する語

• mise en cadre
• mise en shot (= mise en cadre)

Further reading

• mise-en-scène on Wikipedia.