Teaching film and mise-en-scene

What is at stake in the ways we teach the formal concepts of film studies? This question always underpins the way I approach teaching mise-enscene. Are we trying to inculcate students in a set of analytical grids that constitute the received wisdom of the cliscipline or to teach concepts more dynamically, to get students to think in more open and generative ways? Underlying these questions is a clistinction between teaching structure and process: in teaching mise-en-scene, do we focus on breaking it down into static structures, removed from the ways a film engages the spectator, or do we try to get students to immerse themselves in its dynamic construction and unfolding, to come to grips with the way a film plays out in the experiences of viewers?