"Citizen Kane" by Laura Mulvey
Citizen Kane's unchallenged reputation as one of the greatest films in all cinema is matched only by the accumulation of critical commentary that surrounds it. What more can there be to say about a masterpiece so universally acknowledged? As Laura Mulvey shows in a fresh and original reading, the richness of the film, both thematically and stylistically, is inexhaustible. In a lucid and perceptive critique she investigates the psychoanalytic structure that underlines the film's presentation of Kane's biography, for once taking seriously what Orson Welles himself disparagingly referred to as dollar-book Freud. She also illuminates the film's historical context, revealing it to be a prescient commentary on the isolationist politics of prewar America.
Mulvey, Laura: - LAURA MULVEY is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of Fetishism and Curiosity (1996), Death Twenty-four Times a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006), and Visual and Other Pleasures (2nd edition, 2010), and the BFI Film Classic on 'Citizen Kane' (1992, 2012).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780851703398 |
| ISBN 10 | 0851703399 |
| Title | "Citizen Kane" |
| Author | Laura Mulvey |
| Series | Bfi Film Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 1992-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 87 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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