Rosebud Genre Analysis

The mystery genre is well known for creating feelings of suspense and sucking the reader/viewer into the elaborate web spun by the author. Mystery stories are commonly known for the retrograde type of story telling and logical deduction used by the main character to solve the crime at hand. The entire genre is always centered around an individual trying to solve an issue, usually a crime, in a detective like manner. Mystery stories can suck the viewer in as they try to solve the mystery in the same way that the main character is approaching the problem at hand. Due to the ease of adapting the criteria for a mystery story into most situations, the genre has exploded and become very popular which invites many authors to create the wide variations that we know the genre as today. Whether it be as a children’s show, such as the Hanna-Barbera show, Scooby Doo, or as a popular movie such as the recent Quentin Tarantino movie, The Hateful Eight, variations are widely seen and there is no common “respect” to sticking to the preplanned mold set by previous authors. Many things characterize …show more content…
Citizen Kane follows the story of Jerry Thompson, a newspaper reporter, as he attempts to unearth the meaning of Charles Foster Kane’s last words, Rosebud. This film follows a mostly non-linear timeline due to the use of a few flashbacks that are achieved from Thompson reading the memoirs attained at the bank. Flashbacks are one of the many things that are common to the genre without really being a set “necessity” for the story to be considered a mystery. While Thompson is spending his time interviewing different people, there is never truly the sense that anybody is “guilty” because Thompson is merely a reporter looking for the meaning of “Rosebud”. A common understanding of everybody being guilty is a common theme in the genre that Orson Welles chose to ignore in his