Week 3★ Oct 25th MISE-EN-SCÈNE

Wong Kar-wai's films are always great for mise-en-scene analysis
Here is a shot from his Grand Master, 2013

Required Readings:

For Week 3-6 (would illuminate several important topics; for sure, you can take it slow reading it)

Kolker R. ‘the Film Text and Film Form’, in the Oxford Guide to Film Studies, Edited by John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 11-29 (including an analysis of Citizen Kane)

For this week:

Astruc, Alexandre. “What is Mise-en-Scène”, Cahier du Cinema--the 1950s: Neorealism, Hollywood, New Wave. Eds. Jim Hiller. Harvard University Press, 1985. 266-269

Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin. 2010. “the Shot: Mise-en-Scène”, Film Art: an Introduction (10th Edition), University of Wisconsin Press; 112-159
ALTERNATIVE:
you can read almost the same chapter from the 2017 version of the same Film Art book HERE. with new films updated.

NOTE: if you are BA, this reading can be very accessible and helpful!

Reference Reading:

Martin, Adrian. 2014.“What Was Mise-en-Scène”, Mise-en-Scène and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art, (Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television), 43-73