Citizen Kane

Author : Robert L. Carringer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520205677

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The Making of Citizen Kane, Revised Edition by Robert L. Carringer Pdf

Citizen Kane, widely considered the greatest film ever made, continues to fascinate critics and historians as well as filmgoers. While credit for its genius has traditionally been attributed solely to its director, Orson Welles, Carringer's pioneering study documents the shared creative achievements of Welles and his principal collaborators. The Making of Citizen Kane, copiously illustrated with rare photographs and production documents, also provides an in-depth view of the operations of the Hollywood studio system. This new edition includes a revised preface and overview of criticism, an updated chronology of the film's reception history, a reconsideration of the locus of responsibility of Welles's ill-fated The Magnificent Ambersons, and new photographs.

Author : Pauline Kael,Herman Jacob Mankiewicz,Orson Welles
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Motion picture plays
ISBN : 0436230313

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The Citizen Kane Book by Pauline Kael,Herman Jacob Mankiewicz,Orson Welles Pdf

Author : James Naremore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199961313

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Orson Welles's Citizen Kane by James Naremore Pdf

Citizen Kane is arguably the most admired and significant film since the advent of talking pictures. No other film is quite so interesting from both artistic and political points of view. To study it even briefly is to learn a great deal about American history, motion-picture style, and the literary aspects of motion-picture scripts. Rather than presenting a sterile display of critical methodologies, James Naremore has gathered a set of essays that represent the essential writings on the film. It gives the reader a lively set of critical interpretations, together with the necessary production information, historical background, and technical understanding to comprehend the film's larger cultural significance. Selections range from the anecdotal --Peter Bogdanovich's interview with Orson Welles--to the critical, with discussions on the scripts and sound track, and a discussion of what accounts for the film's enduring popularity. Contributors include James Naremore, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Robert L. Carringer, François Thomas, Michael Denning, Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, and Paul Arthur.

Author : Diana Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Citizen Kane (Motion picture)
ISBN : OCLC:1244503679

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Citizen Kane by Diana Barnes Pdf

Author : John Evangelist Walsh
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0299205002

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Walking Shadows by John Evangelist Walsh Pdf

Walking Shadows dramatically dissects the wild, high-profile battle between newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and famous young actor, director, and filmmaker Orson Welles over Welles's groundbreaking film Citizen Kane. In 1940 and 1941 it became the center of public controversy and scandal, especially in Hollywood where Welles's own stark honesty and blatant self-confidence heightened the drama. Citizen Kane portrayed the ruthless career of an all-powerful magnate bearing (not accidentally) a striking resemblance to Hearst, who immediately tried to kill the picture. John Evangelist Walsh here illuminates the conflict between these two outsize personalities and for the first time brings Hearst's vengeful anti-Kane campaign to the fore. Walsh provides thorough documentation, supplemental notes, and an extended bibliography.

Author : Harlan Lebo
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781626401013

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Citizen Kane by Harlan Lebo Pdf

A comprehensive history of the trials, tribulations, and triumphs behind the creation of one of the greatest films of all time, Citizen Kane. CITIZEN KANE: A Filmmaker's Journey is an updated and expanded softcover of Lebo's 2016 hardcover that traces the creation of Orson's Welles's classic film. This filmland history is itself a sinister tale of conspiracy, blackmail, and Coummunist witch hunts, while detailing the extraordinary rise of Welles, the legend who, at 23 years old, defied the studio system and became a Hollywood icon simply by making the greatest film of all time.

Author : Laura Mulvey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781838715076

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Citizen Kane by Laura Mulvey Pdf

Citizen Kane's reputation as one of the greatest films of all time is matched only by the accumulation of critical commentary that surrounds it. What more can there be to say about a masterpiece so universally acknowledged? Laura Mulvey, in a fresh and original reading, illuminates the richness of the film, both thematically and stylistically, relating it to Welles's political background and its historical context. In a lucid and perceptive critique she also investigates the psychoanalytic structure that underlies the film's presentation of Kane's biography, for once taking seriously what Orson Welles himself disparagingly referred to as 'dollar-book Freud.' In her foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Laura Mulvey focuses on the film's politics, highlighting the contemporary 'rhymes' in Kane's portrayal of a scandal-prone press baron in a time of economic crisis.

Author : Diana Barnes
Publisher : Insight Publications
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781921088636

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Citizen Kane by Diana Barnes Pdf

Insight Study Guides are written by experts and cover a range of popular literature, plays and films. Designed to provide insight and an overview about each text for students and teachers, these guides endeavor to develop knowledge and understanding rather than just provide answers and summaries.

Author : Warren Buckland
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031402241

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Who Wrote Citizen Kane? by Warren Buckland Pdf

This book offers a solution to one of film history’s major controversies: the long-running dispute over Orson Welles’ and Herman J. Mankiewicz’s contributions to the Citizen Kane screenplay. It establishes the vital importance of computing and statistics to solving previously intractable puzzles in the arts and humanities. Citizen Kane (1941) is one of the most acclaimed films in the history of cinema. For 50 years it topped the Sight & Sound film critics’ poll. Orson Welles directed the film and is credited with co-writing the screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz. But the co-writer credit generates furious disputes between those who argue Mankiewicz is the sole author of Citizen Kane and those who claim that Welles collaborated fully with its writing. The author employs computing and statistics to answer two questions: What are the distinguishing features of Welles’ and of Mankiewicz’s writing? And What did each contribute to the writing of the Citizen Kane screenplay? To answer these questions, the author bypasses opinions and impressions, and instead subjects the language of the Citizen Kane screenplay to a ‘forensic’ examination. Employing linguistics, basic statistical tests, plus computer technology and software, the author identifies the stylistic signature of each author – the combination of consistent and regular linguistic habits that make each author’s writing distinctive. This book replaces impressionistic discussions of Mankiewicz’s and Welles’ contributions to the Citizen Kane screenplay with a rigorous, experiment-driven statistical analysis. Earlier statistical studies of authorship have discovered that small, unassuming language features (such as punctuation, pronouns, and prepositions) in statistically significant quantities, constitute a screenwriter’s distinctive writing habits. Only with the extensive experimentation carried out in this volume, did the author decide Mankiewicz’s and Welles’ specific habits and their contributions to Citizen Kane.

Author : Ronald Gottesman
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015038153097

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Perspectives on Citizen Kane by Ronald Gottesman Pdf

Citizen Kane has generated a significant amount of critical scholarship since its release in 1941. Orson Welles' work continues to be recognized as a singular artistic achievement, and this collection of reviews, articles and essays reveal the entire history of the film - from its conception, pre-production, and previewing, to its critical reception and influence. Included in this volume are many essays by such scholars as Morris Dickstein, Bruce Kawin, Robert Carringer and Robert Wise.

Author : Taylor Downing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781844575824

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Olympia by Taylor Downing Pdf

Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia (1938) is one of the most controversial films ever made. Capitalising on the success of Triumph of the Will (1935), her propaganda film for the Nazi Party, Riefenstahl secured Hitler's approval for her grandiose plans to film the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The result was a work as notorious for its politics as celebrated for its aesthetic power. This revised edition includes new material on Riefenstahl's film-making career before Olympia and her close relationship with Hitler. Taylor Downing also discusses newly-available evidence on the background to the film's production that conclusively proves that the film was directly commissioned by Hitler and funded through Goebbels's Ministry of Propaganda and not, as Riefenstahl later claimed, commissioned independently from the Nazi state by the Olympic authorities. In writing this edition, Taylor Downing has been given access to a magnificent new restoration of the original version of the film by the International Olympic Committee.

Author : Ronald Gottesman
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002668965

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Focus on Citizen Kane by Ronald Gottesman Pdf

Author : Would I Lie To You?,Peter Holmes,Ben Caudell,Saul Wordsworth
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780571325177

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Would I Lie To You? Presents The 100 Most Popular Lies of All Time by Would I Lie To You?,Peter Holmes,Ben Caudell,Saul Wordsworth Pdf

The cheque's in the post. I'm still at the office. That looks great on you. Lies make the world go round. And in this book the Would I Lie To You? team celebrates the fine art of the everyday fib. Like the deliriously funny contributions of Rob Brydon, Lee Mack and David Mitchell in the hugely successful panel game, here is a delightful collection of 100 fibs that all of us can recognise. Lies like: I didn't even notice she was pretty; I'm working from home tomorrow; and wow, your tattoo looks really... interesting. Written in the same warm, witty and inspired tone that's made the TV show such a hit, the book uncovers the little deceptions that strike a chord with all of us. There are the lies we tell others, the lies people tell us and the lies we tell ourselves. Each entry in the book is laugh-out-loud funny, and filled with more than a little bit of painful truth. If you're a fan of the show, a lover of spot-on observational comedy, or have ever told a porky, Would I Lie To You? Presents the 100 Most Popular Lies of All Time is the book you've been waiting for.

Author : Noel Carroll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521589703

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Interpreting the Moving Image by Noel Carroll Pdf

A collection of film essays by the well-respected critic, Noël Carroll.

Author : Michael Denning
Publisher : Verso
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 1859841708

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The Cultural Front by Michael Denning Pdf

As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social movement by creating a cultural front. Disney cartoonists walked picket lines, and Billie Holiday sand 'Strange Fruit' at the left-wing cabaret, Café Society. Duke Ellington produced a radical musical, Jump for Joy, New York garment workers staged the legendary Broadway revue Pins and Needles, and Orson Welles and his Mercury players took their labor operas and anti-fascist Shakespeare to Hollywood and made Citizen Kane. A major reassessment of US cultural history, The Cultural Front is a vivid mural of this extraordinary upheaval which reshaped American culture in the twentieth century.