Hello, this is the management.  For your first post, I am going to ask you to consider how mise-en-scène is used to create meaning in the Cohn Brothers 1996 film Fargo.  Choose an element of Fargo's mise-en-scène (costuming, setting, staging, color, or any other elements that Phillips discusses in Chapter 1 of our textbook) and discuss how it contributes to the meaning of the film as a whole.  What is the film's message (or what is a message in the film) and how does mise-en-scène convey this idea?  Please respond by using the comment button to reply to this post.

Brendan.

Welcome to the conversation.

This blog will be a forum to continue our conversations outside of the classroom, in this virtual space.  I (aka Brendan, aka The Management) will meet you here several times over the course of the semester with a topic, question, or idea.  Your assignment will be to contribute to this conversation by using the "comments" tool to respond to my post, as well as the posts of your classmates.  Please remember that the blog is a public forum, and that your writing will be visible both to your classmates and to the internet community at large.  This means that all your posts should follow the University of Minnesota code of conduct - and I reserve the right to remove posts which do not.  Further instructions for writing will follow soon.