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'"We're a Very Normal Family": Representing the Mundane in Channel 4's The Family' (2012)
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Holohan. (2012). '"We're a Very Normal Family": Representing the Mundane in Channel 4's The Family'. Media, Culture and Society, 21-35. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443711427197

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 usu... Read More about '"We're a Very Normal Family": Representing the Mundane in Channel 4's The Family'.