Giannetti, Louis, and Barbour, John, and Book, David, and Czapsky, Steve, and Driscol, Barbara, and Mauk, James, and Nemser, Michael, and Paskay, Barbara, and Paskay, Dennis, and Weisking, Ron
Cleveland, OH: Case Western Reserve University Film Society, 1979. No. 1 [Stated] [PREMIER ISSUE}. Wraps. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 10.75 inches. 72 pages, plus covers. Illustrated front and back covers. Illustrations. RARE SURVIVING COPY! This was intended to be a quarterly publication. Its date of publication is not stated in the document, but is believed to be about 1970. The latest publication date of books reviewed is 1969. Its purpose was "...to clarify relationships, establish appropriate contexts, and, in short, to suggest some of the attitudes and techniques that film directors have used in communicating their themes..." Mise-en-scene, is a term used in the legitimate theater and the cinema that refers to the arrangement of volumes (objects, actors, sets, etc.) in space within a given area. In the theater, this arrangement is three-dimensional and is usually confined by the proscenium arch. In movies, the mise-en-scene is photographed onto a two-dimensional screen, and is confined by the film frame, the metteur-en-scene, and in both cases the director, but because the theater is essentially a verbal medium, the stage director acts largely as an illustrator and interpreter of the playwright's ideas. film is essentially a visual medium, and thus the movie director's mise-en-scene is the basic technique of artistic expression, for that e are far more individual shots in a film than there are scenes in plays. More