ROSEBUD! The classic masterpiece, Citizen Kane (1941), is undoubtedly one of the most famous and highly acclaimed films in history. Stemming from the ¡°Hollywood¡¯s America¡± genre of films, as detailed in Setting the Scene: The Great Hollywood Art Directors, Citizen Kane blew away audiences with its many remarkable scenes, cinematic and narrative techniques, innovations, and art direction. 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 aesthetics, Citizen Kane develops two interesting themes. The first concerns the debasement of the private personalit
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