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Citizen Kane

In Our Time: Culture

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The Story of Rosebud

There's a tension between two storytelling methods that continues to play out across the film. We never hear from Kane himself, we only hear from the people who loved him or whom he loved. He does, I think, as Stella says, remains this kind of omnipresent but still sort of distant or flat quote unquote character.

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