ENG 281: Week 5: Mise-en-scene and Amelie

Required Readings:

Yale Film Studies: Mise-en-scene

Robert Kolker: Mise-en-scene


(Options for Viewing of Out of Class films for this week: Delicatessen; City of Lost Children; A Very Long Engagement; Dirty Pretty Things; Annie Hall; Kontrol; American Beauty; Romeo and Juliet; The Age of Innocence; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Being John Malkovich; Blue Velvet; The Royal Tenenbaums; Mean Streets; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Dogville; The Piano; The Addiction; But I’m a Cheerleader; Monsoon Wedding; The New World; Touch of Evil; Vertigo; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Jules and Jim; The Grand Illusion; Lolita; Brazil. For previews go to IMDB )



Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet: France/Germany, 2001)

Hannah Eaves and Jonathan Marlow: Jean-Pierre Jeunet—“Not Interested in Realistic Things”

Stefan Steinberg: The Thoroughly Conformist World of Amelie

A.V. Club: Interview of Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Andrea Meyer: The Fabulous Destiny of Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Mise-en-scene and Terry Gilliam's Brazil:



Keith James Hamel: Modernity and Mise-en-scene—Terry Gilliam and Brazil


Past Student Responses to Amelie:



Travis Swinford: Response to Amelie

James Kiser II: A Proposal for a Paper on the “Feel Good” Genre

Tristin Moran: Amelie—“Oh, To Dance the Sweet Fantastic”

Trevor Tremaine: The Visual Style of Amelie

Jillian Chandler: Mise-en-Scene in Amelie

James Kiser: Beautiful… An Analysis of Mise-en-scene in Amelie