书目名称 | Who Wrote Citizen Kane? |
副标题 | Statistical Analysis |
编辑 | Warren Buckland |
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概述 | Provides arts and humanities scholars an accessible overview of statistical methods and the digital humanities.Uses statistical methods to scrutinize the language of the Citizen Kane screenplay.Untang |
丛书名称 | Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
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描述 | .This book offers a solution to one of film history’s major controversies: the long-running dispute over Orson Welles’ and Herman J. Mankiewicz’s contributions to the .Citizen Kane .screenplay. It establishes the vital importance of computing and statistics to solving previously intractable puzzles in the arts and humanities...Citizen Kane .(1941) is one of the most acclaimed films in the history of cinema. For 50 years it topped the .Sight & Sound .film critics’ poll. Orson Welles directed the film and is credited with co-writing the screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz. But the co-writer credit generates furious disputes between those who argue Mankiewicz is the sole author of .Citizen Kane .and those who claim that Welles collaborated fully with its writing. ..The author employs computing and statistics to answer two questions.: What are the distinguishing features of Welles’ and of Mankiewicz’s writing?.And. What did each contribute to the writing of the .Citizen Kane .screenplay? .To answer these questions, the author bypasses opinions and impressions, and instead subjects the language of the .Citizen Kane .screenplay to a ‘forensic’ examination. ..Employing linguistics, basic |
出版日期 | Book 2023 |
关键词 | Orson Welles; digital humanities; co-authorship; Citizen Kane; disputed authorship; Herman Mankiewicz; sty |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40224-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-40226-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-40224-1Series ISSN 2199-0956 Series E-ISSN 2199-0964 |
issn_series | 2199-0956 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |