Re: Citizen Kane's Borrowings: techniques attributed to "Citizen Kane" which appeared in earlier films

From: David P. Hayes
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.past-films
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 1998 9:40 AM

RalphBener wrote in message
<19980310113101.GAA03463@ladder02.news.aol.com>…
>Kael's "Raising Kane" is one of her best, most readable lengthies. But, one
>should beconcrned as to how much she doesn't attribute to Orson Welles. She
>never interviewed him while preparing the piece.

The two post-"Raising Kane" books that I cited both deal with this, Cook on pages 347-48, the Prentiss-Hall text on 431-32.

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David Hayes

 

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