The Revolutionary Filmmaking Decisions in Citizen Kane (Searcher)
The YouTube video attached below is very informative on how the film Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) utilizes many of the techniques we have learned about in class. In particular, it explains how differ... Read More(Searcher) Spacial narratives and importance of ending in “Parasite”
Webpage of an article studying spatial narrative in the film “Parasite” This paper examines the spatial narrative structure in the South Korean movie “Parasite” by analyzing the physic... Read More(Viewer) Nonlinear Storytelling in Citizen Kane
This is my second time watching this film and I think I finally got to appreciate it a little bit instead of trying to figure out what is going on in the story. I think this confusion comes from the n... Read MoreThe Real Life Xanadu
Orson Welles’ 1941 film, Citizen Kane, has grown to be a remarkably influential pillar of modern cinema. The contents of the film are generally based on the life of American news tycoon William Rand... Read More(Viewer)Narrative in Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane’s narrative combines flashbacks, which, although commonplace now, was a bold attempt in Hollywood at the time. The film begins and ends with shots of the distant view of Xanadu. The ope... Read More(Searcher) The Lasting Riddles of Orson Welles’ Revolutionary Film ‘Citizen Kane’
This article, written by Alice George in 2021 for the Smithsonian, discusses the enduring legacy and impact of Orson Welles’ revolutionary film “Citizen Kane” on its 80th anniversary... Read MoreOpen-Ended Plots and Anticlimactic Endings: Narrative Form in Film
After reading Chapter 3 of Film Art titled, “Narrative Form,” I was surprised by how much we as viewers of films play a role in the process of storytelling. Although it is up to the director to ch... Read More