Citizen Kane

by Laura Mulvey

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: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

A formal treatment of the psycoanalytic aspects of the film

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.

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.