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Narratives in the Films Citizen Kane and The Usual Suspects

75). The door to the room is deep inside the frame, so when the nurse enters, it carries the eye "deep into an almost endless fram...

Films One Night at McCool's, The Usual Suspects and Their Narratives

one central character which functions as the narrative object (Telotte, 2003). In other words, this character is typically define...

American Interpretations of Film Noir

of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...

"The Asphalt Jungle" and "Citizen Kane" as Classics of Film Noir

before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...

Theme and Crucial Scene in 'The Usual Suspects'

experience is one of a combination of mass confusion and inexplicable intrigue all at the same time. This dichotomy is likely the...

Trio of Historic Films Examined

In ten pages a trio of historic films answer questions pertaining to cinematic theories, techniques, styles, emotions, and editing...

Formalism and Realism in the Film, Citizen Kane

This paper addresses Orson Welles' film, Citizen Kane. The author focuses on formalism and realism in the film. This five page p...

Cognitive Cinema Theory and Narration

night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...

Citizen Kane's Film Techniques

daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...

Narrative Style and Theme of Citizen Kane

In six pages a cinematic analysis of director Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane focuses upon the auteur's themes of capitalis...

Destroying Susan's Bedroom in "Citizen Kane"

estate, Xanadu, so Susan can recover. However, despite the fact that the place is huge and lavishly decorated, its also a prison,...

Citizen Kane, Cinematic Art

reporter investigating this issue and interviewing the various people who new Kane. From the newsreel, the audience learns that ...

Gregg Toland's Contributions the Film Citizen Kane

a woman from his past perhaps. But, those familiar with the film know better. This opening scene is also one, instilled by the w...

A 'Classic' Film Review

for garnering information about the characters. Citizen Kane tops on all of the critics list is the new and dynamic use of the cam...

A Critical Review and Analysis of the Film, Citizen Kane

This paper analyzes and reviews Orson Welles' 1941 classic film, Citizen Kane. This two page paper has three sources listed in th...

Cinematic Technique Known as 'the Long Take'

In six pages this paper examines how filmmakers such as Hou and Orson Welles have employed the long take cinematic technique in su...

Searches in 2 Films by Orson Welles

series of flashback scenes, it becomes apparent that Kane, though quite wealthy, does not know who he is anymore. Having risen fro...

Orson Wells and the Broadcasting Industry

enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago.7 He traveled to Ireland in 1931, painting the countryside until he wound up in Dublin, w...

Citizen Kane

seems that Hearst brought in representatives to look and find flaws that would give him power. One article states how, "The lawyer...

Film Techniques, Citizen Kane (1941)

This essay offers a description of film techniques used in "Citizen Kane," directed by and starring Orson Welles. Three pages in l...

Cinematic Narrative in Pulp Fiction and Citizen Kane

We note he grows to be a gregarious individual who seems driven to succeed in unusual ways, always seeking some adventure and some...

Verbal Kint from The Usual Suspects Verses Odysseus

A 5 page essay comparing Odysseus from Homer's The Odyssey with Kevin Spacey's character Verbal Kint. There are many parallels in ...

The Use of Irony by the Narrator in Ambiguous Adventure

Diallo as a character would grow regardless of where he went to school. This is ironic as one would think that expanding ones hori...

Film Review of Citizen Kane

home. On reaching the age of twenty-one, Kane assumes control of his fortune, but only one of his holdings has any interest for h...

'News on the March' Scene Opening the Film Citizen Kane

last word of Citizen Kane as he dies in his bed. That word is the infamous "Rosebud." First time viewers, viewers who know nothing...

STRATEGIES FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT ON THE JOB

she asked them, through blast e-mail, to stop their teasing and comments, they ignored her request. The steps this woman n...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Film Review/Toy Story 3

as "jolly, slapstick comedy," but also criticizes it for lacking the "almost eerie humanity that infused" the earlier movies, writ...

Pulp Fiction and Citizen Kane, Use of Sound

of sound in film can be understood by watching a scene from a film without the sound track. With no sound, the images, no matter h...

Orson Welles and Citizen Kane

or arrogance, in life that would have made him proud to be the subject of a film. Kane was too simple for that in relationship to ...