Mise en jeu and Mise en geste
Eisenstein, Sergei / Levchin, Sergey
Mise en jeu and Mise en geste was composed in January 1948, a few months before Sergei Eisenstein's untimely death. Here Eisenstein insists on subordinating all aspects of mise en scène to some unifying idea or principle inherent in the subject matter, transforming it from an incoherent jumble of staging decisions into a "legible text, " wherein the subtext of a given scene or event - its hidden meaning - may be writ large. Unlike Eisenstein's...
