Word of the Week: mise-en-scène (meez-ahn-SEN)

Definition

(Noun)

1	a :	the arrangement of actors and scenery on a stage for a theatrical production
	b :	stage setting
2	a :	the physical setting of an action (as of a narrative or a motion picture)
	b :	environment, milieu

In Context

“For the night of his election last May …, he arranged a dramatic mise-en-scène: while loudspeakers played Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy,’ the new president walked alone across the courtyard of the Louvre as spotlights threw his larger-than-life shadow on the façade of the former royal palace.”

Tom Sancton, Vanity Fair, May 2018