Filmikunsti ajalugu
1941 Citizen Kane
H. J. Makiewicz. Story of the media magnate Charles Foster Kane. Fragmentation of the
story. Overlapping narrative from multiple zanras.
The anti-hollywood approach Citizen Kane and its innovations
Narration technique an deep focus/sequence shot style imitated by countless directors.
Sophisticated deep focus photography and sequence shot: attemptm to technically reporduce
the human vision, give the audience the decision where to watch, more ,,realistic"
reproducction of real time (of the narrator). Welles rebelled against the Hollywood Studio
system: technical experimentation, the production mode, the story-telling, the absence of
stars.
1958 Touch of evil
Inspector Vargas has to solve a case in the Mexican-American borderland. His counterpart is
the corrupt American inspector Quilan. In times when the classical film noir was considered
to be over Orson Welles produced the swan song to the genre. Tale about the corruption of
human nature