Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane's unchallenged reputation as one of the greatest films in all cinema - in many people's view the greatest - is matched only by the accumulation of critical commentary which has surrounded it. As Laura Mulvey shows in a fresh and original reading, the richness of the film, both thematically and stylistically, is inexhaustible. In a lucid and perceptive critique she investigates the psychoanalytic structure which underlies the films presentation of Kane's biography, for once taking seriously what Orson Welles himself disparagingly referred to as'dollar-book Freud.' Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.