By Aisha HarrisEvery ten years since 1952, the British Film Institute’s publication Sight & Sound releases the results of its Greatest Films of All Age poll. Yesterday, it released the 2012 edition, and for the first age since 1962, Orson Welles’ masterpiece, Citizen Kane, is no longer at the top of the heap, dethroned by Alfred Hitchcock’s dizzying thriller Vertigo. Citizen Kane has become the quintessential film college example of cinematic technique and mastery and has extended been awarded such top accolades. So what changed? Below, a hardly any theories about Vertigo’s assent to the top:Changing Views on Femininity and Changing Voting DemographicsRead More…
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