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Citizen Kane (1941) is an empowering movie full of intrigue, dynamic storytelling, and groundbreaking cinematography. Here we have the story of a rich and famous newspaper tycoon who gives a final word, rosebud. What does this mean? Who was Charles Foster Kane, and what sort of life did he live? The film is gripping, different, and compelling. Further, Orson Welles provides a stellar performance, forever immortalizing as a film staple. From a sense of time, the film introduces flashbacks

On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles aired the play, “War of the Worlds,” a rewritten and revised version of the book, “War of the Worlds.” This was not any normal play; however, this play was made as if the events described in real time to add extra excitement and more entertainment value. As expected, some people actually believed that the situation depicted was real. This caused panic and scared many around the country. Welles believes that he had the right to air that play as he was first amendment

for ever and ever.” Oscar Wilde never spoke truer words. The aforementioned ability to govern “for ever and ever” comes from journalistic sensationalism, a craft perfected by newspaper owners and journalists Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst at the dawn of the twentieth century. Sensationalism counts for only one of the numerous ties between the career rivals who, in an effort to distinguish themselves from each other, ironically knotted themselves together in journalism history. Joseph

"Declaration of Principles" is a scene from Orson Welles' 1941 film Citizen Kane produced by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is based in part on the life of penny paper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Mr. Charles Foster Kane, the protagonist, is young and wealthy, and is used to getting whatever he wants. At the age of 25 he purchases New York Inquirer and he steals the best journalists from the competition. Kane employs yellow journalism to build a media empire. As Kane says " I've got to make

During the Progressive Era of the Gilded Age, many laborers were being mistreated by the companies that they worked for. Because of this, workers started forming labor unions or organized association of workers, formed to protect and further their rights and interests. Many of these labor unions failed, while few of them achieved their goals and still exist today. Many factors contributed to the failure of these labor unions. The labor unions were given a bad image, the reason for this was the media

Mise-en-scene is the principle by which a piece of film will derive its meaning wholly from what happens in the single shot and not from the relationship between two shots. For example the director might include shots with various composition, angle, depth, movement, and lighting. Citizen Kane has many good examples to show Mise-on-scene usage. The scene that I believe is the most significant and powerful mise-en-scene that I have this seen this semester exists in this movie. This occurs when

"Citizen Kane" is one of the best critically acclaimed films of all time. It is everything a lot of the movies now a day only dream of being. This film is way ahead of it's time in all senses. It uses a non linear approach to the story telling, which is something we've been seeing a lot of recently but was rarely found in films from the forties. The visual and audio elements of this movie are also unbelievable. With all the technology we have now, it's hard to image how Welle's pulled it off in 1941

Industrialization had revolutionized the newspaper industry allowing machines to print thousands of papers in a night, providing publishers with the ability to provide more newspapers (Campbell 2001). Hearst and Pulitzer found attention grabbing, sensational headlines sold more papers.This began the brand of reporting known as yellow journalism. These publishers were credited with starting the Spanish American War due to their exaggeration and inflammatory

Publishing visionaries Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst dominated the American journalism industry in the mid 1890s, whilst competing for circulation in a bitter rivalry, widely considered as the greatest newspaper war in history. Their revolutionary advances in the use of sensationalist material within print gave birth to the concept of ‘yellow journalism’, compiled of a ‘toxic formula - one part news to one part hype’ (Streitmatter, 2011). This would have a monumental impact on society

“Leading medical researchers are coming to the conclusion marijuana, pot, grass, or whatever you want to call it is probably the most dangerous drug in the United States…”(President Ronald Reagan, 1980 Campaign Rally Speech) "We may be able to make some progress on the decriminalization side. At a certain point, if enough states end up decriminalizing, then Congress may then reschedule marijuana." (President Barak Obama, 2015 Vice Magazine Interview) In less than forty years the most important