Who Wrote Citizen Kane?

Statistical Analysis of Disputed Co-Authorship

AvWarren Buckland

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Del i serien Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Beskrivning

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?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-09-29
Mått:155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt:448 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Antal sidor:167
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031402234

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Språkvetenskap och lingvistik inom Språk och ordböcker
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

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).

Innehållsförteckning

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.