Essays on Citizen Kane

The film industry during the World War II underwent major changes to help change the cause of the war. The world war II affected cinematography and the story lines of various movies that were produced at that time. These movies symbolized the Cardinal impulses that later came to captivate serious audiences, filmmakers, and critics after the war.

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)

Rick Blaine, a businessman with a strict, but cool, cynical and efficient business man whose anger is reserved, an American expatriate is the owner of a highly rated nightclub and a gambling den in Casablanca. The movie develops complex characters who are ...

Citizen Kane (1941) Film Viewing Assignment

Director: Orson Welles Film Editor: Robert Wise The one major and the three main supporting actors and their character names: Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane, a rich and successful publisher of newspapers

Joseph Cotten as Jedediah Leland

Dorothy Comingore as Susan Alexander Kane Everett Sloane as Mr. Bernstein Let us consider the cult film “Citizen Kane” shot by young Orson Welles in 1941. The film is based on the script of the same Orson Welles in a duet with Herman Jacob Mankiewicz. The leading role in the film played Orson Welles himself as Charles Foster Kane, a ...

Shot in 1941 by Orson Welles, Citizen Kane stays one of the best films in the history of cinematography. After more than 70 years, the film is still admired by the critics and the audience and inspires dozens of filmmakers. The film’s numerous phenomenal artistic and intertextual codes testify of the merited fame. Calling Citizen Kane “a discourse on method”, Andre Bazin probably meant the unlimited source of the cinematographic devices the film represents for the ordinary cinema lovers and the professional filmmakers. First of all, it is significant to understand the reasons why the film had such ...

The film Citizen Kane was produced on September 5th 1941. The lead actors were Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton and Dorothy Comingore. The film was directed by Orson Welles who was also the lead actor in the film. The head of cinematography was Gregg Toland. Charles, the lead actor in the film, is depicted as a man who is so engulfed in his search for material things that he loses his humanity and soul and becomes a greedy man . The plot of the film is developed through the eyes of the young Charles, giving the audience a window into the ...

The two passages written by Bordwell and Toland provide the analysis of different aspects of Citizen Kane, one of the most legendary products in the cinema industry. Gregg Toland, an outstanding cinematographer, primarily famous for his work with Orson Welles on the movie Citizen Kane, in the paper “How I Broke the Rules in Citizen Kane” makes the analysis of his collaboration with Welles as well as the analysis of major achievements which were made in terms of this collaboration during the shootings of the film (Toland 569). Firstly, he explains the differences between the terms “commandment” and “convention” ...

Introduction

The American film history is rich with the names of the directors who contributed to the world cinematography by the innovativeness and development of the industry. Depending on the era and the technological possibilities accordingly, the genius directors made the cinema the more and more powerful tool of influence on the society. Becoming more complex and profound, cinema in hand of the creator is a true work of art. The genius of his epoch, Orson Welles contributed not only to the cinema, but also theatre, radio, and even the social life of his country. Not only did Orson Welles ...

Abstract

American Culture has undergone many turns and twists throughout the centuries. It has always been determined to provide a tangential impasse into the lives of the American citizens as well as that of the events that encircle him /her in a wider global perspective. Perhaps that had been the proper way of interpretation of the society and its elements on a global as well as local perspective for the media. However in recent years, there seems to be an influence on the media channels as well as cable networks to highlight the importance of only the internal complexities of the American social ...

If somebody had asked me what makes a film successful, I would have been not able to answer at once. Acting, directing, screenplay, soundtrack, costumes, settings, camera operating, and a great many of other factors are equally valuable; they all contribute to the general perception of the film by the auditory. In my essay I will focus on one element of the system – music; and I will try to discover how that magnificent tool makes a film admired. Anabel J. Cohen in his Music as a source of emotion in film states that “emotion characterizes the experience of film, as it ...

The American dream is an ideal, an aspiration that is embodied in the pursuit of happiness and self-satisfaction that has been the banner of the United States as personified in its philosophy of freedom. This ideology wants people to believe that everyone can achieve prosperity and success in the land of the free provided that one strives hard because there is very little barrier that would deter one from accomplishing their goals of a better life. Although the specificity of the American Dream varies and changes over time, the general concept remains the same—that anyone who works hard will ...

Orson Welles’ seminal film Citizen Kane is widely considered to be one of the greatest films of all time, and for good reason – Welles’ uniquely Expressionistic and evocative cinematography, as well as editing and mise-en-scene, elevates an already stellar cast and incredible script to a deeply-felt character study of a man seeking immortality. One of the most intriguing sequences in the film is the scene wherein Charles Foster Kane (Welles) is inspired to create the Declaration of Principles for his newspaper; its simple, elegant yet effective visual style is indicative of the film’s look as a whole. In keeping the vast ...

Citizen Kane is an American film produced in 1941. It is directed, produced and co-written by Orson Wells, who also stars in the film as Kane. The film revolves around the life of Charles Foster Kane, a wealthy newspaper business magnate. As he dies in his palatial home, in Xanadu, Kane utters the word “Rosebud” which this triggers a search by a Newsreel reporter about his private life. The reporter, John Thompson, interviews Kane’s close friends and associates, making the story unfold as a series of flashbacks. Citizen Kane differs from most American movies of its era on several accounts; the film’ ...

Mise-En-Scene in Citizen Kane Clip

Mise en scene entails the principle aspects used in a clip to fully explore its meaning to the viewers. It involves the combination of aspects such as movements, background plays or insights, various opus amongst others. It’s basically the control of events by the director of the film. The first scene on the clip is done on Mrs. Kane’s boarding house. At the background of the scene we see the small child Kane playing with a lot of naivety outside the apartment in the snow. This is seen through the white window screen. The mother inside the house ...

- Psycho (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock The movie is about a couple who meet in a hotel in phoenix Arizona to discuss their marriage plans. They discuss about the scarcity of finances to afford a decent marriage. Upon returning to the offices the lady, Marion, gets a client who brings $40000 to buy an apartment for his daughter. Marion devises a way in which she can elope with the money where she succeeds. The movie director shows how desperate Marion is to get finances. She embarks on a long journey out of town. She has a lot of troubles on the way from suspicion by ...

Introduction

This essay will cover the importance of the use of multiple narrators in William Faulkner's As I lay Dying and Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. This will further discuss comparison or contrast of both books.

William Faulkner's As I lay Dying

Through the course of fifty-nine segments, As I Lay Dying has fifteen various narrators. The first part goes to Darl Bundren, he introduces us his siblings Cash and Jewel, and Addie his dying mother. They live in Mississippi. His brother, Cash, is an experienced carpenter and is frantically constructing a coffin for her mother. Because Addie wants to make sure that the coffin is built well. ...

Current scriptwriters and movie producers go through an intense production processes that determine the quality of their respective movies. The content in their movies explains the messages that they wish to pass. Citizen Kane tells a moving story of a past legend whose life had several complications. It also implies that the media can have negative impacts on the lives of people who focus on it excessively. I agree that “Citizen Kane” is the best of movie of all time. The movie cannot be compared to other movies because of the awards it has won from its production. This movie ...

A survey taken in Great Britain may lend credence to the charge that learning history at the movies is not “a good thing.” The 2011 poll revealed that 20 percent of those surveyed believe Sherlock Holmes was a historical figure, while a substantial percentage is convinced that Che Guevara, Florence Nightingale and Jesse James were fictional (Daily Mail, 2011). If it is true that the film and entertainment industry has become so powerful that it has a measurably misleading effect on historical knowledge, then learning history at the movies would, if anything, appear to be detrimental. Many filmmakers have skillfully blended art and ...