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Glenn, Thanks for the link to your essay, with all kinds of background that I didn't know about. And if you can lead me to the larger description of your first viewing, I'd enjoy that as well. I can't think of a better entry into the complexity of CK as your own. Where did you find this scene of Kan...

Glenn, I just re-read this: "Having understood the meaning of "rosebud" emotionally (as well as in terms of plot) at the age of ten, when I saw CITIZEN KANE first run in the little Ohio town where I was born..." That's amazing! To get Rosebud as a child, even younger than Kane in...

The Carringer essay is excellent, the best discussion of Rosebud I've come upon, & esp. stimulating for me because it is so opposed to my own interpretation. He sustains the Kael debunking, holding that CK comes out of a tradition of muckraking comedy, via Mank. He offers an extensive discussion...

Ray, Thanks for the Sarris tip... which I've read. Perhaps here. While Rosebud was Mank's idea, perhaps it might have also resonated significantly for Welles because, like Kane, his childhood was truncated? As a maximalist I find that not only is the sled a potent symbol, not a gimmick, but that it ...

Ray & Glenn, Thanks for these helpful and prompt replies. Since my query I also came upon that reference to the Rodman in the PG papers, which indicates that it is not about the topic I was hoping for: the evening when Kane meets Susan, instead of arriving at the WMW. I'm a maximalist as opposed...

Greetings All, In the bibliography to D Thomson's _Rosebud_ he lists Howard Rodman's "Western Manhattan Warehouse," American Film, Jan '86. Does anyone know what this article is about? Is it online anywhere? (I live in the country, far from any major academic library.) The "Western Ma...