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One aspect of Citizen Kane (1941) has always puzzled me: why, aside from the opportunity it afforded them to display virtuoso technique, did Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz make a film about the dead Kane instead of a film about Kane while he was living? To my knowledge, no one has ever attempted to answer this question; yet, probably more has been written about Citizen Kane than any other American movie.
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Cardullo, R.J. (2016). The Real Fascination of Citizen Kane: Welles’S Masterpiece Reconsidered. In: Teaching Sound Film. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-726-9_3
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