Citizen Kane- Mulvey

Just as I enjoyed the Rushdie analysis of The Wizard of Oz I thought that the Mulvey analysis of Citizen Kane brought up interesting points about the film. I thought that the feminist film criticism and psychoanalytic views were particularly interesting. I think that when viewing this film you wouldn't really think of it from a feminist viewpoint but I think that it was interesting that the main feminist points were just the way that women were portrayed onscreen. This then played into the psychoanalytic aspect of the film. I thought that it was interesting that this reading brought up freud and the Oedipal concept to describe Kane's relationship with his mother. I think that the psychoalaltic reading of this film is important because it explains why the word "rosebud" was so important to the life of Kane. Another aspect that is discussed is fetishism, Mulvey brings freud in again at this point to discuss this. The reading states how in the film the audience never really sees susan as one to desire but that Kane does fetishize her in the first scene that they have an encounter and throughout the film. Overall, I thought that this analysis of Citizen Kane was ver insightful and gave me a better appreciation of the film as well as made me look at specific things in a different light.