Film Studies Daily Log

Thursday, December 16

Starting from a statement by Orson Welles about the centrality of Kane's love for his mother and the "dollar book Freudianism" of Citizen Kane, we examined various scenes in the film and the imagery of snow which binds them together. We analyzed the scene in the snow when young Charles is taken from his home and revisited the by now rather tedious dispute over whether certain details in films have meaning beyond their simple, matter-of-fact existence as objects in a story.