Hello Class! This week’s reading is all about cinema genres. As a girl growing up in Panama, my introduction to the world of storytelling came through the vibrant narratives of telenovelas that ...Read More
This week’s reading discussed narrative and how important it is in telling a story. Narratives have three main components: causality, time, and space. I never paid too much attention to any of t...Read More
On the same weekend that we all watched Citizen Kane, Drake dropped his new highly anticipated album, For All the Dogs. After finishing the film, I listened to the album a few days later, and honestly...Read More
Orson Welles’ cinematic masterpiece, “Citizen Kane,” has left an indelible mark on the history of filmmaking. Released in 1941, this groundbreaking film is a testament to the creativ...Read More
Citizen Kane (1941) from the mind of Orson Welles tells the story of Charles Kane, a newspaper tycoon based off the real life William Randolph Hearst. What made this film so revolutionary for its time...Read More
(PSN is plot, story, and narrative) Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane is a film that differentiates the ideas of plot, story, and narrative. The plot is the sequence of events that happen on screen as we s...Read More
The authors mention at the beginning of the chapter how people lined up outside bookstores when the latest issue of Harry Potter came out and started reading it as soon as they got back home. This mak...Read More
“I don’t think any word can explain a man’s life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle—a missing piece.” Thompson Citizen Kane is not the traditional narrative driven sto...Read More
“The cinema of attractions” describes a unique period in film history, a time when filmmakers were more interested in engaging their audience’s senses and providing visual thrills th...Read More