The People We Watch: Documentary Contributors and What Their Experiences Tell Us About the Cultural Industries [Hardcover]

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The People We Watch explores the politics of contemporary media production from the point of view of the ordinary people it represents.

The People We Watch opens up a brilliant and nuanced interrogation of the documentary subject at the heart of contemporary television production through careful empirical research with the voices of participants and crew. Given the current spotlight on the treatment of those involved in making television, read this book to understand the important ethical and civic questions at stake for the industry and for future research.

Helen Wood, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Aston, Birmingham

This wonderful study breaks new ground by listening to the ordinary people who contribute to factual television. Its an extraordinarily skilful and important contribution to media industry studies and to documentary scholarship.

David Hesmondhalgh, Professor of Media, Music and Culture, University of Leeds

The People We Watch is a meticulously researched, sensitive look at the making of documentary television programmes and the oft-neglected perspectives of the ordinary peol´