VM100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Leni Riefenstahl, Film Stock, Orson Welles
9 Nov 2016
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Modernist tendencies in citizen kane (cid:523)(cid:889) nov (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:883)(cid:888)(cid:524) Modernism challenges the representational adequacy of conventional forms. Convenience you what what you see is true/suspension of disbelief. Challenges the singular perspective/singular judgment of conventional forms e. g. cubism: non-linear narrative (cid:523)e. g. flashbacks(cid:524) Multiple perspective / judgments: different view of who kane is: two subjects-(cid:884) people we are aligned with. Film present: reporter(cid:523)aligned with(cid:524), desires to find out what (cid:498)rosebud(cid:499) means, and drives the movie. A weak subject, cannot see him (cid:523)only profile or back, no back story about him, only one aspect of him(cid:524) Not a heroic subject (cid:523)wear glasses, not ideal american(cid:524) Film past: kane (cid:523)less likely to share judgment, aligned with bc story is told by others(cid:524) (cid:885). In conventional (ollywood, people can find meaning of (cid:498)rosebud(cid:499), but in. Citizen kane, only audiences find out the meaning, while people in the movie gave up finding the meaning and thought it was useless to find the meaning.
