Citizen Kane / / Laura Mulvey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910467937503321
• Autore: Mulvey Laura
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-83871-199-6; 1-84457-715-5
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (105 pages) : illustrations, photographs
• Collana: BFI film classics
• Disciplina: 791.4372
• Soggetti: Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Orig. publishing : 1992.; Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 103).
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgements Foreword: Seventy Years of a Film's Life Citizen Kane.- Appendix .- Notes .- Credits .- Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Citizen Kane's reputation as one of the greatest films of all time 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? Laura Mulvey, in a fresh and original reading, illuminates the richness of the film, both thematically and stylistically, relating it to Welles's political background and its historical context. In a lucid and perceptive critique she also investigates the psychoanalytic structure that underlies the film's presentation of Kane's biography, for once taking seriously what Orson Welles himself disparagingly referred to as 'dollar-book Freud.' In her foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Laura Mulvey focuses on the film's politics, highlighting the contemporary 'rhymes' in Kane's portrayal of a scandal-prone press baron in a time of economic crisis."--Bloomsbury publishing.