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Orson Welles's Citizen Kane A Casebook

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ISBN-10: 019515892X

ISBN-13: 9780195158922

Edition: 2004

Authors: James Naremore, James Naremore

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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 a sterile display of critical methodologies, James Naremore has gathered a set of essays that represent the essential writings onthe 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…    
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Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/22/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Introduction
Interview with Orson Welles
Editor's notes to the Welles interview
The scripts of Citizen Kane
Style and meaning in Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane : the sound track
The politics of magic : Orson Welles's allegories of anti-fascism
Citizen Kane : from log cabin to Xanadu
Citizen Kane
Out of the depths : Citizen Kane, modernism, and the avant-garde impulse