Beyond Citizen Kane
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Beyond Citizen Kane | |
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Directed by | Simon Hartog |
Written by | Simon Hartog |
Produced by | John Ellis |
Narrated by | Chris Kelly |
Edited by | John Ellis Simon Hartog |
Distributed by | Channel 4 |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Languages | English Portuguese |
Beyond Citizen Kane is a 1993 British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and first broadcast on Channel 4. It details the dominant position of the Globo media group, the largest in Brazil, and discusses the group's influence, power, and political connections.[2] Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho was criticised and compared to the fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, created by Orson Welles for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. According to the documentary, Marinho's media group engages in manipulation of news to influence public opinion.[2]
TV Globo (known as Rede Globo at the time of filming) objected to the film's position and tried to buy Brazilian rights, but Hartog had already made agreements to give non-television rights to political and cultural groups in Brazil. However, the documentary cannot be broadcast on television in Brazil since it contains large sections of footage owned by Globo.[3] Nevertheless, copies sold in Britain reached Brazil in the 1990s and circulated widely there.
In addition, since the internet boom of the early 21st century, the film has been released on
Plot summary
The documentary tracks Globo's involvement with and support of the
The title refers to the 1941 film, Citizen Kane, whose fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane was created by the director and actor Orson Welles. He was believed to have been based on the American publisher William Randolph Hearst, noted for creating yellow journalism and exploiting the press. The 1993 British documentary criticised Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho for his close ties to the military dictatorship and suggestively compared him to the Kane figure for manipulation of news.[2]
Controversy
Dispute with Globo over British rights
The documentary was first shown on 10 May 1993 in the
During this period of legal manoeuvring, Simon Hartog, the director, died after a long illness. The process of editing was taken over by his co-producer John Ellis. When the film was eventually broadcast, the production company sold copies in the United Kingdom at cost. Many individuals in the Brazilian community in Britain sent copies to associates and friends in Brazil.
Censorship in Brazil
The film was also to be shown at the Museum of Image and Sound (MIS) of São Paulo. The MIS copy was confiscated after two screenings, according to a later account by Anhaia Geraldo Mello, then coordinator of the TV and Video Museum. He said the order came from the governor of São Paulo, Luiz Antônio Fleury Filho. The official story at the time was that the film was cancelled because of technical problems.[4]
Through the 1990s, the film was illegally screened by universities, political groups and unions, as copies were made available informally.[4] In 1995, Globo requested in court to confiscate copies of the film available at the library of the University of São Paulo, but it was over-ruled. The film was officially restricted to university groups until the 2000s, when the internet boom in Brazil[2] made it impossible to control access, as people could put it on the web (and did). (Brazil is the fifth country internationally by number of web users and first in time spent by individuals on Internet use monthly.)[2]
Screenings and internet phenomenon
At the time of release,
But numerous
On 20 August 2009, the newspaper
On 14 February 2011, the newspaper Jornal do Brasil (quoting the network's spokesperson) reported that Rede Record would broadcast the documentary in 2012.[7]
See also
- Criticism of Rede Globo
- Partido da Imprensa Golpista
- Concentration of media ownership
- Censorship in Brazil
- 1993 in British television
References
- ^ Entry at the British Film Institute
- ^ a b c d e Folha Universal. "Crença na impunidade" Archived 6 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Arca Universal. (27-09-09).
- ^ "Produtor de documentário antiGlobo diz que TV pública vem tarde demais – 24/02/2008 – Poder – Folha de S.Paulo". www1.folha.uol.com.br. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Documentário polêmico sobre a Globo completa dez anos" (Controversial documentary about Globo celebrates ten years) Archived 24 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine, O Estado de S. Paulo 8 August 2003 (in Portuguese), accessed (on Google Translate) 23 June 2013
- ^ "Documentário vira arma de Record contra Globo" (Documentary becomes Record's weapon against Globo), Terra, 21 August 2009
- ^ "Record compra direitos de documentário sobre a Rede Globo - Portal IMPRENSA". Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2013., 20 August 2009
- ^ "Muito além do cidadão Marinho" (Far Beyond Citizen Marinho), Jornal do Brasil, 14-02-11, accessed in translation 24 June 2013
External links
- BBC: Brazilian media magnate dies
- (in Portuguese) 2008 interview with John Ellis on Folha Online
- (in Portuguese) Observatório da Imprensa – Muito Além do Cidadão Kane
- (in Portuguese) Sociólogo francês compara Marinho a Berlusconi
- (in Portuguese) PUC Minas Library Record
- Beyond Citizen Kane at IMDb
Video
- (in Portuguese) Download the film (Audio is Portuguese. Few parts have audio in English with Portuguese subtitles)
- (in Portuguese) Mirror | Torrent (Audio is Portuguese. Few parts have audio in English with Portuguese subtitles)
- (in Portuguese) Beyond Citizen Kane – download and streaming (Audio is Portuguese. Few parts have audio in English with Portuguese subtitles)
- Beyond Citizen Kane in its entirety on Large Door's YouTube channel (Audio is in its original English)