Citizen Kane a Man Named Charles Foster Kane
This film beings with an eerie setting and suspenseful music. Even though this movie is in black and white it is mostly dark colors in the beginning scene. By making the beginning scene it immediately draws in the attention of the viewer. Citizen Kane utilizes cinematographic techniques to stress material presence and textual representation. At the beginning of the film, and throughout the entirety of the film, there would be an up-close text and during this the camera would move…...
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On top of that, this meant that these actors didn’t have a loyalty to the RKO studio which helped because this was Welles’ producing/directing debut and he needed people who were willing to try some groundbreaking ways to achieve his desired goal. The contract that Welles had with RKO meant that he had to answer only to one person who was George Schaefer, the President and this made it much easier for Welles to hire his own actors and even…...
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Citizen Kane Popular in The Post-War Era
Film Noir became popular in the post-world war era because of its unique and narrative style with a focus on the female antagonist, the femme fatale. The story often features a male protagonist with a secret past who is trying to move on but is forced to return to his post because of the occurrences of an event or a character, often the femme fatale, with whom the protagonist shared a past. Most noir films are hard-boiled crime thrillers that…...
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Citizen Kane Cinematography
This essay sample on Citizen Kane Cinematography provides all necessary basic information on this matter, including the most common "for and against" arguments. Below are the introduction, body and conclusion parts of this essay.Citizen Kane has been voted the greatest American film to be ever made in poll after poll. And this assessment comes from critics, directors and fans alike. There are several reasons why this achievement is possible. When it was released in 1941, the film revolutionized and revitalized…...
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Citizen Kane Analysis
Citizen Kane (1941), directed by Orson Welles, draws extensively upon the ethos of the American Dream and the pursuit of happiness to explore the human condition. The film is a fictionalized version of William Randolph Hearst, it’s this towering central character that gives the film its air of significance as well as its continuingrelevance as the parallels with Citizen Murdoch, Citizen Trump and Citizen Jobs are easy to spot. Most saliently, the film’s enduring value and timeless nature can be…...
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The murder of the century by Paul Collins Review
The following sample essay on "The murder of the century by Paul Collins Review": style and problem andcritique on The murder of the century by Paul Collins. Who does not know Orson Welles' film "Citizen Kane" from 1941? Even Welles was fascinated by the biography of the US newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst so much that he took it as a model for his fictional media mogul Charles Foster Kane and filmed his life with unprecedented effort. This was a…...
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