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| | Martin on Gibbs/Mise en scene |
 | | -- He summarises *mise en scène* analysis as a well-established protocol in film criticism: 'Since [Louis] Delluc, to judge a film is *always* to judge the performance of the actors, the quality of the dialogue, the beauty of the photography, the efficacy of the montage. |
 | | This moment in the history of film, and the challenge it issued in relation to the available tools of film criticism, has largely been lost, forgotten. |
 | | Now to the challenge of film history, and the moment in that history when classical *mise en scène* itself becomes something which can be referenced, cited, evoked -- and also, thereby, bracketed, problematised, and merrily interfered with. |
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