Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1833, from French mise en scène, literally "setting on the stage," from mise (13c.), literally "a putting, placing," noun use of fem. past participle of mettre "to put, place," from Latin mittere "to send" (see mission).
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of mise en scène English)
n. 1 Physical environment; surroundings. 2 The arrangement of props and actors on a stage or for film.
WordNet
n. arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted [syn: stage setting, setting]
Usage examples of "mise en scene".
Has it occurred to you, if the lethal injection was given during the operation, how extraordinarily favourable the mise en scene was for the murderer?
And the latter is really the malice that Epicurus aimed at Plato: he was peeved by the grandiose manner, the mise en scene at which Plato and his disciples were so expert - at which Epicurus was not an expert - he, that old schoolmaster from Samos who sat, hidden away, in his little garden at Athens and wrote three hundred books - who knows?
If Beef knows who is guilty why can't he tell the police, instead of staging an elaborate mise en scene?