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Who wrote Citizen Kane? = statistical analysis of disputed co-authorship /

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Title/Author:	Who wrote Citizen Kane?/ by Warren Buckland.
Reminder of title:	statistical analysis of disputed co-authorship /
Author:	Buckland, Warren.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2023.,
Description:	xiii, 167 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Statistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40224-1
ISBN:	9783031402241

Who wrote Citizen Kane? = statistical analysis of disputed co-authorship /
Buckland, Warren.

Who wrote Citizen Kane?statistical analysis of disputed co-authorship /[electronic resource] :by Warren Buckland. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2023. - xiii, 167 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Quantitative methods in the humanities and social sciences,2199-0964. - Quantitative methods in the humanities and social sciences..

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.

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 statistical tests, plus computer technology and software, the author identifies the stylistic signature of each author - the combination of consistent and regular linguistic habits that make each author's writing distinctive. This book replaces impressionistic discussions of Mankiewicz's and Welles' contributions to the Citizen Kane screenplay with a rigorous, experiment-driven statistical analysis. Earlier statistical studies of authorship have discovered that small, unassuming language features (such as punctuation, pronouns, and prepositions) in statistically significant quantities, constitute a screenwriter's distinctive writing habits. Only with the extensive experimentation carried out in this volume, did the author decide Mankiewicz's and Welles' specific habits and their contributions to Citizen Kane.

ISBN: 9783031402241

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-40224-1doiSubjects--Personal Names:

1430633
Mankiewicz, Herman J.
1897-1953--Authorship.Subjects--Uniform Titles:

Citizen Kane (Motion picture)
--Authorship.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1366322
Statistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy.

LC Class. No.: PN1997.C51173 / B83 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 791.4372

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