the predominant interpretation of Rosebud?

[tonyw]

One article in a past historyt of CINEMA JOURNAL did make a very good case for the emotional revelation of "Rosebud" as being a key part of the film. It appeared during the last 20 yars and I'll have to look it up. The MLA International Bibliography may also be a good source for those much quicker on the trigger.

[Colmena]

Is it this one?:

Cinema Journal Winter 1987
Fiery Speech in a World of Shadows: Rosebud's Impact on Early Audiences, 3-26
Robin Bates, Scott Bates

Abstract: Although many critics no longer take it seriously, the Rosebud search in "Citizen Kane" provided a means for liberal male viewers in 1941 to confront and come to terms with their major political, aesthetic, and psychological anxieties. To reconstruct "Citizen Kane's" initial reception is to increase our admiration for this complexity.

[Wellesnet]

Here is Orson Welles's own interpretation, from the Wellesnet Main Page:

http://www.wellesnet.com/?p=5252