The enunciation in "Citizen Kane"
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In this article we investigate the relationship between the figure of Charles Foster Kane´s mother, the absence of paternal role and the enunciation in Citizen Kane (1941), of Orson Welles. Two sequences of the film, the beginning, in which the protagonist pronounces, before dying, the famous word Rosebud, and one in which their parents appear are essential to our investigation. We apply to these and others key sequences of the film, the method of analysis proposed by the spanish professor Jesús González Requena. Our conclusion is that there is a close relationship between the absolute sovereignty of the mother´s figure in Citizen Kane and the enunciation of the film.Downloads
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