Cinema Chapter 12: Synthesis

What reason describes best why the acting in Citizen Kane is considered repertory in style?

508

Who is the only seemingly conventional character in the script?

516

The movie falls in the implicit range of ideological values?

519-520

This actor's brilliant performance provides considerable warmth to an otherwise cool and intellectual film.

Dorothy Comingore

Which famous film critic contended that Welles merely added a few polished touches to Mankiewicz's finished screenplay before filming the movie?

Pauline Kael

Cinematographer Gregg Toland chose to work on Citizen Kane because the veteran cinematographer thought he

be able. to learn something from the "boy genius"

Kane's argument with Susan over her disastrous opera debut reviews is cut according to what editing style?

classical conventions

Then as now, RKO studio's advertising emphasized the picture's

commercial appeal

The mixture of decency and corruption in the character of Kane is suggested by what kind of lighting?

contrasting lights

What considerations often determined the cunning editing strategies of the film?

cross-cuts ? (504)

Instead of shooting the exposition scenes in the normally efficient medium two-shot method in Citizen Kane, Toland and Welles photographed them using

deep-focus photography

In many respects, Citizen Kane is structured like a mystery story, a search to penetrate a great enigma. Welles is able to suggest this idea in the very opening sequence, through a series of

dissolves and traveling shots

In 1937 in New York, Welles joined forces with the aspiring theatrical producer John Houseman to

form their own company Mercury Theater

From a stylistic viewpoint citizen Kane is a masterpiece of

formalism

Each shot type in the film has an appropriate sound quality associated with it. Long- and extreme-long-shot sounds are

fuzzy and remote

How did Welles introduce most of the major events and people of Kane's life

in a brief newsreel shown early in the film

Wells's performance as Kane was

lavishly published

Welles was, ideologically speaking, a lifelong

liberal

Orson Welles's first love was

live theater

Kane production designer Van Nest Polglase and his assistant Perry Ferguson has a preference for what kind of sets?

monumental sets

Bernard Herrmann's musical score shows its sophistication by assigning ______________ to several of the major characters and events

musical motifs

A common exposition technique throughout fiction films of the 1930s and 1940s was to provide information through the use of

newspaper headlines

Why did Welles and his screenwriter have Kane mumble the word "rosebud" in his final moments of life?

note of suspense/no meaning to it

Welles frequently ____________ his dialogue, especially in the comical sequences.

overlapped

How was Welles viewed when he arrived in Hollywood in 1939?

resented

It's difficult to isolate the editing in this film because it often works in concert with the

sound techniques

Coming from the world of live theater, Welles was an expert at

staging action dynamically

In Citizen Kane, what sort of camera movements are generally equated with old age?

static camera

Why did Welles choose to use the flashback storytelling technique in Citizen Kane?

to sharpen the story line and infuse it with more dramatic urgency