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After watching this film, Combine the textbook content and then write the analysis
( The only secondary sources allowed to support your answer is the textbook:FILMANALYSIS: A Norton Reader)
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- Narrative structure, cinematography, and sound in Citizen Kane
2½ to 3 pages max. (240 Points)
In his essay on Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941), James Naremore qualifies the film as “[…] a powerful example of film art. On a purely formal level, the picture is important for many reasons, among them its ingenious juggling of time and perspective, its carefully designed sound track, and its influential use of wide-angle, deep-focus photography” (322).
Explain each of these “reasons,” or elements of Welles’s filmmaking, evoked by Naremore. What are these specific film strategies Welles implements and how do they contribute to the telling of the story and the development of the director’s vision and main commentary?
In other words, focusing on the narrative structure and on specific techniques of sound and cinematography, explain how Welles uses them and the particular effects and meanings they create.
Illustrate your explanations with the close analysis of 3 or 4 precise scenes.
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Running head: CITIZEN KANE FILM ANALYSIS
Citizen Kane Film Analysis
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Citizen Kane Film Analysis
The dramatic film of 1941 of Citizen Kane is about a group of reporters who were
attempting to interpret Orson Welles last words. At the begging of the movie, the life of Kane is
shown, and then the flashback of the audiences demonstrated from his life depicts the audience
of a man who owned everything (Citizen Kane, 1941). Different elements have been used in the
film that will be discussed in the paper.
In the first scene of the movies where Kane is portrayed as dying and is holding a globe
of crystal glass in his hand, he is seen whispering a word that is heard spoken by large mouth
where ROSEBUD fills the screen. He thought that no person would listen to what he had said as
e though he said it in a tone that was low, the butler only heard it. The sound told by Kane as
well as the entire noise as well as silence before his death depicts to the audience that word is
something that is essential in the movie. The sounds make the audience think how the film could
be mysterious. After Kane has altered his last wor...
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