Film Studies Daily Log

Tuesday, December 15

We examined subjective uses of the camera in Citizen Kane, first reviewing the subjectivity of the viewer's response to the opening sequence and consequently to the film's investigative mission as a whole, then re-viewing and comparing to each other the two montages of Susan's opera performances.

After this it was Sentencing Time: students wrote two drafts of a single sentence summing up the theme of Citizen Kane, and several students then read their sentences aloud to the class.