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Citizen Kane
Series: BFI Film Classics
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Ideal for film students, cinephiles, and anyone interested in film theory, political cinema, or the work of Orson Welles. This thoughtful critique appeals to readers seeking a deeper understanding of classic cinema's social and historical dimensions.
Laura Mulvey offers a fresh and original reading of one of the greatest films in all cinema. This new edition of Mulvey's study is published in the Film Classics 20th anniversary series of special editions, with a new foreword by the author, and a stunning new jacket design by Eric Skillman.
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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.
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ISBN: 9781844574971
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 July 2012
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: BFI Publishing
Edition: 2nd edition
Illustration: 32 b/w photos
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 8.0mm
Width: 136.0mm
Height: 190.0mm
Weight: 185g
Pages: 104
About the Author
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).
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