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Who Wrote Citizen Kane?

Statistical Analysis of Disputed Co-Authorship

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvWarren Buckland

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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?

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Utgivningsdatum2024-09-30
Mått155 x 235 x 11 mm
Vikt289 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieQuantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Antal sidor167
Upplaga2023
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031402265

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Warren Buckland is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His research interests include (1) Film Theory (semiotics, cognitive film theory); (2) Narrative Theory (puzzle films, unreliable narration); (3) Digital Humanities (statistical style analysis, stylometric analysis of screenplays).He is author of Narrative and Narration: Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling (2021), Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld (2019), Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions (2012), Directed by Steven Spielberg (2006), and The Cognitive Semiotics of Film (2000). His edited collections include Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema (2009).

Introduction: War of the Words.- 1. The Trials of Co.- Authorship.- 2. Screenplays: Words on a Page.- 3. The Statistical Analysis of Style: Aims and Methods.- 4. Distinguishing Mankiewicz from Welles: Training Phase Results.- 5. Comparing Mankiewicz and Welles to the Citizen Kane Screenplay.- (1): Relative Frequencies, Distinctiveness Ratios,and Confidence Intervals.- 6. Comparing Mankiewicz and Welles to the Citizen Kane Screenplay (2): Sentence Length, Clusters, Type/Token.- Ratios, and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC)In Conclusion.- Appendice.- Works Cited.- Index.