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"Citizen Kane" (Orson Welles, 1940), 2002.
The paper reviews the film "Citizen Kane" and analyzes its importance and originality in 20th Century cinema.
1,006 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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The paper examines how the film reflects a sense of the history of the U.S. in the first four decades of the 20th Century. It looks at the American values embodied in the title character, Charles Foster Kane. The paper also discusses the synthesis of techniques used in the film, including German expressionism and spatial relations, which contributed to the film's originality.
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"This is an ambitious film. Its subject is not just the life of one man but the development of American society, politics, business, and journalism over the course of the century from around 1890 to 1940. The film is highly successful at both its main endeavors--making the wealthy and powerful Kane into a human figure standing as a sort of American tragedy, and giving a sense of how American history flowed through the media as the latter became more important in this century. For Kane, owning a newspaper starts as something he thinks would be fun and becomes a means to attain and consolidate power. He tries politics himself but is driven away when his own peccadilloes are about to be revealed, then he uses the paper to make and break others in politics as in other realms of business and social life."
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Orson Welles: His Art as it Manifests itself in "Citizen Kane", 2006.
A review of Orson Welles' epic film "Citizen Kane".
1,515 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper examines the signature film in Orson Welles' directorial career - "Citizen Kane". The paper explores how Welles constructs his narrative, how his fairly elegant style as a director is on full display in the film and how he builds the character of Charles Foster Kane via introducing the recollections of others (by using superbly-rendered visual images). The paper also discusses how Citizen Kane shows Welles' ability to take the film-making art of his time and elevate it to a new level of sophistication never before seen in American cinema, by making images on the screen act with a metaphorical power and vividness. The paper looks at Gregg Toland's (cinematographer of "Citizen Cane") artful use of cinematographic tools that were far more advanced than anything which had been attempted up to that time.
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"In Citizen Kane, Welles' extraordinary ability to create a storyline that is simultaneously complex yet (fairly) easy-to-follow is on display. The noted American film critic Roger Ebert has written that the film is circular, adding more depth each and every time it returns to the life of the Kane character. Ebert also adds that the decision on the part of Welles' to open his 1941 opus with a scene featuring newsreel obituary footage is intended to be both portentous (obviously) and is also meant to serve as an anchor that will keep the thoughtful audience member oriented as the screenplay moves seemingly haphazardly from one memory to another of the man as recalled by those who knew him."
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Citizen Kane ( Orson Welles ), 1987.
Discusses the techniques, purposes & effects of narrative approach.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 47.95
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"The cinematic world invites---even requires---concept-ualization. The images presented to us, their arrangement and juxtapositioning, are narrational blue prints for a fiction that must be constructed by the viewer's narrativity." This essay will discuss this quotation in relationship to Citizen Kane.
Orson Welles and co-writer, Herman J. Mankiewiez, created
a complexly structured story. Welles invites the viewer to
piece together the various segments of Kane's life rather like
the jigsaw puzzles that Kane's second wife, Susan, plays with
in Kane's castle. The film begins outside the castle, Xanadu,
at the "No Trespassing" sign, then moves through the dark eerie night to the castle, then on into the bedroom. The camera moves slowly toward the bed, where an ugly old man lies dying, Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles). The camera moves in to hear the man's(...)"
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"Citizen Kane", 2008.
An analysis of the techniques used in the film "Citizen Kane" by Orson Welles
1,128 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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The paper discusses the film "Citizen Kane" by Orson Welles and analyzes its style and structure. The paper shows how the various elements used in telling this story contribute to its symbolism while centering on the mystery of the nature of Kane's character.
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"Citizen Kane is a rich film in which one can find a wide variety of American values reflected or subverted in the actions of Kane and others in the film. The film also reflects a sense of the history of this country in the first four decades of this century, a period of change in the economic and political realms embodied in the changes in Charles Foster Kane himself. He begins as an idealist in the American mold, a man who wants his newspaper not merely to report the news but to provide a forum for the truth. However, this entails the accumulation of a good deal of power, and the growth of this power becomes a rationale for trying not merely to report the news but to make it."
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An Analysis of "Citizen Kane", 2006.
An analysis of the four minute boarding house scene in the film, "Citizen Kane" and what this scene reveals about the style of the director, Orson Welles.
1,217 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper analyzes Orson Welles' film, "Citizen Kane", and describes the plot of the story and the personality of the main character in the film. The paper specifically focuses on Mrs. Kane's boarding house scene and how it affected the childhood of Charlie Kane, the main character in the film. The paper then describes how this four-minute scene displays Welles' artistic talent in an exceptional manner.
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"Orson Welles created a masterpiece in his film Citizen Kane and the four-minute scene of Mrs. Kane's Boarding House displays Welles' artistic talent in an exceptional manner while creating the image of Charles Kane as a happy, playful boy that becomes raged at everything about his new guardian, and leads to Kane being in a lifelong search of what he lost that day. Welles painted a canvas that showed how inspiring Charlie's mother was to Kane and that Charles was committed to being in control of his environment just as his mother was. The love and affection that was lost as boy from Kane's mother was sought after by the radiance that Charles demanded from his empire. Welles' depiction of Kane's childhood showed what Charles wanted to replace in his life as an adult by the wealth and empowerment gained. Through the uses of camera angles, character placement, sounds, and symbolism, Welles brought about the undiminished story of Charles Kane's life in this one scene. As Charlie's sled of security and love of his childhood lay alone, cold, and lifeless in the snow, he had much wealth and many people with him as his journey with Thatcher began. As Kane died an old man, he also was alone, cold and lifeless with great wealth and many people."
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Conflict in "Citizen Kane", 2004.
An examination of five conflict scenes in Orson Wells's 1941 masterpiece film, "Citizen Kane".
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This essay is a critical look at one of the most respected and revered films in American film, "Citizen Kane". The essay examines the many faceted conflicts that exist in the film and the lengths the characters take to resolve them. "Citizen Kane" is a tale of conflict on many different levels. This essay looks at five of the most compelling and significant conflicts that play out on the screen. These five elements in the film are the focus of the essay; they are analyzed and discussed in turn.
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"Orson Wells' 1941 masterpiece Citizen Kane is regarded as one of the finest movies since the beginning of American cinema. Like anything that is considered "great" this film has stood well against the test of time. In Citizen Kane the validity and importance of the story is almost secondary to the methods employed to tell that story. Wells, the consummate performer, utilized all of his experience stage acting and directing experience in Kane. Many of the techniques had never been used in such a manner or to the extent that Wells did. All story elements aside, Citizen Kane ushered in a new period in American Film and would inspire the film-makers not only of the generation when it premiered but film-makers even today."
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"Citizen Kane" and "Stagecoach", 2003.
Comprison of John Ford's Stagecoach and Orson Welles' Citizen Kane through the use of mise en scene.
1,913 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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The films "Citizen Kane" and "Stagecoach," two examples of great Hollywood cinema, also serve to emphasise the importance of mise-en-scene in filmmaking. By contrasting these two films in terms of mise-en-scene themes such as good and evil, social climate and diagetic time. The essay also explores the technical aspects of film such as lighting, costuming and film angles.
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"The mise-en-scene is one of the most important elements in cinema. From French, it literally means, ?putting on stage?, and was first applied to theatre. A mise-en-scene in a film is everything that comprises the frame ? from lighting and costuming to set design, and has a significant impact on the meaning on the film. By looking at two films by way of example, Citizen Kane and Stagecoach, deconstruction is necessary to display how elements of mise-en-scene work to add to the story and tone of the pictures."
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?Citizen Kane?, 2002.
An examination of the dark motives of Charles Foster Kane and Susan Alexander in Orsen Welles' ?Citizen Kane?.
791 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 28.95
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The paper discusses how in director Orson Welles cinematic masterpiece "Citizen Kane", the character of Charles Foster Kane (Welles) experiences many traumatic events that are linked to an obsession with his mother. It looks at how out of all these events, Kane's marriage to Susan Alexander, played by Dorothy Comingore, is the most disturbing, for it reflects some very dark motives on the part of Kane, the "spoiled rich kid" who inherited a fortune via the Comstock Lode. It shows how Kane's marriage to Susan, who was forced to live in a world that revolved around Kane and his obsessive behavior, collapses and makes her a free woman. It evaluates how Kane used Susan as a scapegoat in order to heal the wound left by his abandonment as a child, and through Susan's abandonment of Kane, his self-image and his massive ego are destroyed.
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"The ultimate symbol of Kane's obsessive behavior occurs in the scene where Susan finally confronts her husband in the bedroom, where the famous "snowball" glass orb sits on Susan's dressing bureau. After she tells him that their marriage is over and leaves the bedroom, Kane smashes everything in the room--except the glass "snowball" which reminds him of his childhood in Colorado and his mother. This object encapsulates everything Susan stands for--her loneliness, rejection and the abuse thrown upon her by the insane Charles Foster Kane."
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"Citizen Kane", 2002.
A review of the famous book turned film "Citizen Kane".
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A review of the cinematic technique of "Citizen Kane" as shown by Orson Welles.
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"Citizen Kane", 2002.
Analyzes this film by Orson Welles.
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This paper examines the Orson Welles' film, "Citizen Kane". It focuses on the opening scene featuring a 'News on the March' newsreel outlining the life of Charles Foster Kane. It relates this montage to the film as a whole both thematically and cinematically.
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"Citizen Kane", the Camera as a Character, 2002.
A study on the cinematography in the classic movie "Citizen Kane".
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This paper examines Orson Well?s classical film ?Citizen Kane?. It illustrates how Wells made the camera an active part of the dialogue and plot through photographic and cinematographic methods. The author claims that the integration of sound and camera work make the story first person as seen through the eyes of the viewer. The paper describes how this revolutionary film brought the viewer out of the theater seat and onto the screen.
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"Citizen Kane represented a breakthrough in cinematography at the time of its release. Filmed in 1941, it launched the career of Orson Wells. It helped to define Orson Well?s unique style, which later became his trademark. Orson Wells collaborated with Herman J. Mankiewicz on the script. However, it was the cinematography of Gregg Toland that made the film a memorable masterpiece. Until this time, the use of shadows, camera angle, depth of shot and focus presented characters in a non-personal way. The camera stayed in one place and the actors moved in front of it. In" Citizen Kane", Orson Wells made the camera an active part of the dialogue and plot. In this way the photography in "Citizen Kane" became an integral part of the artistry in the movie. The photography in Citizen Kane could be viewed as stand?alone art. The use of the camera in Citizen Kane makes the audience a participant in the film, not a mere observer. They become a character in the film themselves through the camera."
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Luis Bunuel and Orson Welles, 2002.
A look at the life and works of Luis Bunuel and Orson Welles--influential and revolutionary filmmakers in film history.
1,185 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper looks at the contributions of Luis Bunuel, director of the Surrealist film "Un Chien Andalou"; (An Andalusian Dog) and Orson Welles, director of the American classic film, "Citizen Kane". It shows how both directors have given significant input to the history of film that are currently and still in practice.
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"Luis Bunuel is a Spanish director who was known primarily for his contribution the Surrealist movement that emerged along with the French Impressionist movement during the latter part of 1920s. ?Un Chien Andalou? (An Andalusian Dog), which was produced in the year 1928, marked the beginning of the use of surrealism in films. During this time period, surrealism is fast becoming a popular movement, and is prevalent in the visual arts, such as the paintings of Andre Breton and Salvador Dali. Incidentally, Dali is influential in Bunuel?s works because his works include those of Dali?s paintings, one of which was shown in ?Un Chien Andalou.? The Surrealist movement is characterized to be the anti-thesis of the normative formula of most films. Instead of adapting a narrative form and style, Surrealist films are antinarrative, and appeals mainly to the subconscious thoughts of people. Surrealist works are also devoid of logic, as can be seen in Bunuel?s portrayal of a woman sucking the toes of a statue, and the popular scene wherein Bunuel himself cut with a razor the eyeballs of a woman. These scenes are evidently devoid of any logic, and in fact, surrealist films do not aim to explain at all whatever message (if there is a message) a film has."
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Chaos Versus Order: Orson Welles' "Othello", 1999.
An examination of the use of lighting, camera angles and props to symbolize the changing characters of Othello and Iago in Orson Welles' film version of William Shakespeare's "Othello".
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This paper discusses how, in his play "Othello", Shakespeare establishes Iago as a manipulative character who brings chaos and pain to Othello's world of order and respect. Iago's influence on Othello is seen in the text as Othello's lines become progressively shorter and more violent, and Othello loses everything he loves. The paper then looks at how Welles, in his 1952 adaptation of the play, brings these men's opposing styles, chaos and order, to film through the use of visuals and how he emphasizes Othello's loss of power and order at the hands of Iago with the use of lighting, props and confining sets.
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"In his play Othello, Shakespeare establishes Iago as a manipulative character who brings chaos and pain to Othello's world of order and respect. Iago's influence on Othello is seen in the text as Othello's lines become progressively shorter and more violent, and Othello loses everything he loves. Welles brings these men's opposing styles, chaos and order, to film through the use of visuals. In his 1952 adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello, Orson Welles emphasizes Othello's loss of power and order at the hands of Iago with the use of lighting, props, and confining sets."
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Leadership Theories and "Citizen Kane", 2005.
Applies six leadership theories to an analysis of the character of Charles Foster Kane.
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This paper applies six leadership theories to an analysis of the character of Charles Foster Kane in Orson Welles' film, "Citizen Kane." It concludes that Kane is typical of authoritarian leadership style.
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"Citizen Kane", 2003.
Discusses the timeless quality of the 1940 film.
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Discusses the film's status as a masterpiece, the new filmic techniques used by director Orson Welles in his film debut, his understanding of the art and craft of filmmaking, and the wide variety of cinematic devices and tricks.
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"The film Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) has been hailed as a masterpiece and is often cited as one of the best films if not the best film ever made. The film has been much imitated, but much of it was totally fresh and new when the film was first ..."
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