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Citizen Kane
L. Mulvey
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Paperback. 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. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 104 pages, 32 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 137 x 8. Weight in Grams: 188. Series: BFI Film Classics. 104 pages, 32 black & white halftones. 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. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: APFA. Dimension: 189 x 137 x 8. Weight: 190.
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.'
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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.'
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Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
104
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
BFI Film Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844574971
SKU
V9781844574971
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About L. Mulvey
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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