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Citizen Kane
By Orson Welles & Herman J. Mankiewicz.
Published by Methuen
Drama.
Published 2002.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0413771873
ISBN-13: 978-0413771872
Description:
"A definitive
chronicle of the making of the film" – Sheridan Morley, Films &
Filming.
"Citizen Kane
revolutionised film-making, and the question of its authorship is as important
to the cinema as that of Hamlet to the theatre ... Pauline Kael explains how
the picture came to be made and concludes that the man most responsible for its
creation was not Welles but Herman J. Mankiewicz" – Kenneth Tynan, Observer.
The complete screenplay
of one of the world's most famous and controversial films.
This is the complete
companion to Citizen Kane - the film that was "designed to
shock" (Kenneth Tynan) - one of the best-loved and best-known movies in
the history of Hollywood and still the most staggering film debut ever. Not
only was this Orson Welles's first film as actor and director but most of the
cast were also new to the cinema. Yet so controversial was the subject matter
that an $842,000 bribe and the concentrated wrath of the Hearst newspaper
empire combined in an attempt to strangle its distribution. And the authorship
of the film is still a subject of conflict.
Pauline
Kael's long essay, "Raising Kane", dissects a maze of Hollywood lore
to re-evaluate these and many other fascinating stories about the making of
this remarkable film. Her account is followed by the original screenplay,
illustrated with stills and frame enlargements.
