‘We’re a very normal family’: Representing the mundane in Channel 4’s…

In 1974 Paul Watson’s The Family pioneered the ‘fly-on-the-wall’ technique to build a picture of family life that also exposed inequalities contained in British society. Today, film-maker Jonathan Smith, has updated this format using technologies usually found in reality programming to focus on the mundane practices of family life, in Channel 4’s The Family (2008). However, instead of the meta-…

Media Culture & Society , Volume 34 Number 1 January 2012

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