HIST200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Marion Davies, Citizen Kane, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Orson welles directed, produced, co-wrote and starred in the lm. Often seen as a disguised biography of william hearst but is mostly a ctional drama. Praised as being an innovation in the history of lm and has won many awards. While watching: does the lm focus on depicting history or making history: parable of human frailty, metaphor for ills of capitalism. Married to millicent wilson but became obsessed with actress marion davies (who stars in the lm) Hearst was known for having parties and nding out secrets about his guests that he would publish in his paper the next week: lm is seen by many as payback for hearst"s exploits. Debate over what other people thought citizen kane was about if it wasn"t hearst (all speculations were regarding other well known gures) Deep focus shot (gregg toland - accomplished cinematographer) Source: university of waterloo online history 200 lecture.
