... inspiration. Strange as it may seem today, Citizen Kane required a lot of getting used to. If those greatest-film polls had been conducted in 1941 it would have ranked well below the top 100. Audiences in general hated it at the time because it looked and sounded "freakish". Many cinematographers found it offensive too, not for its innovations but because it resurrected techniques that had ... long been considered outmoded. Along with the personal story is the history of a period. ``Citizen Kane'' covers the rise of the penny press, the Hearst ... to the key element of the action, had ...

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... the desperation of the scene. The use of shadows, unusual scene composition (mise-en-scene) and change of focus are other examples of techniques used repeatedly in film noir, which are all shown by Orson Welles in Citizen Kane' to show the main character's complete alienation. Another stylistic technique is unconventional camera movement, which is shown by John Huston who uses this to devastating ... would suggest, that ultimately it seems as curiously diverse as its subject matter, and equally as inadequate for accurately defining the form. (Telotte 1989) so although there are definite...

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