Along with the personal story is the history of a period. ``Citizen Kane'' covers the rise of the penny press, the Hearst-supported Spanish-American War, the birth of radio, the power of political machines, the rise of fascism, the growth of celebrity journalism. ... The figure of Charles Foster Kane -- like the protagonists in many of Orson Welles' other films -- is a tragic, I'd say Faustian one, wherein idealism and great power give way to hubris and eventual downfall. ... Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, each being a story in which an individual (who is the foc...

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