Analysis of Citizen Kane The classic masterpiece, Citizen Kane (1941), is probably the world's most famous and highly rated film, with its many remarkable scenes, cinematic and narrative techniques and innovations. The director, star, and producer were all the same individual - Orson Welles (in his film debut at age 25), who collaborated with Herman J. Mankiewicz on the script and with Gregg Toland as cinematographer. Within the maze of its own aesthetic, Citizen Kane develops two …showed first 75 words of 1176 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1176 total…Kane represents an intense vision of American life, a life in which materialistic elements are distorted and magnified at the expe! nse of human potentialities. The implied absence of free will in the development of Kane's character is thematically constant with the moral climate of his environment. As the techniques used have not been limited in form, so too, Kane's magnitude unchecked by limiting principles or rooted traditions, become the cause of spiritual. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**