The Interrogative Architecture of Cinematic Power
The Interrogative Architecture of Cinematic Power Drama, in its most fundamental formal operation, functions not as a representation of conflict but as a strategic deployment of questions designed to reshape perception and control narrative authority. The screenplays of Citizen Kane (1941) and The Social Network (2010) demonstrate that dramatic tension emerges not from the events themselves but from the calculated manner in which information enters the public consciousness. Both texts reveal that drama operates as a mechanism of interrogation—a systematic practice of asking questions that, regardless of answer, positions the questioner as the architect of meaning and the questioned as the subject of suspicion. ...