Book Overview
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... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0851703399
ISBN13:9780851703398
Release Date:January 1992
Publisher:British Film Institute
Length:87 Pages
Weight:0.41 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.4" x 7.5"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
A formal treatment of the psycoanalytic aspects of the film
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
This book has laid a fundation for understanding the film from a psychoanalytic perspective. The author re-examined the visual style of the film, its narrative structure, the historical context during production and the director's political activities, discovered new facts and finally came to an interpretation in psychoanalytic terms in which all the clues would fall into places. Although some of the arguments were not given in full length and rigidness (there are only 87 pages), this book certainly built a new system of meanings regarding the film that includes many facts discovered in the past several decades.
A wonderful film that deserves a book like this.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This is an example of what the BFI classics should hope to attain for each of their forthcoming books.A great insight into the film and the events surrounding it. Praise, I suppose, is due to the fact that there was so much that went on around the making of this film that it would be hard to write a bad book about it.
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