The People We Watch

Documentary Contributors and What Their Experiences Tell Us About the Cultural Industries
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-94103-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Media and Cultural Industries

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

Based upon a series of in-depth interviews and the author’s own professional experience of working in the television industry, this book examines how documentary contributors feel about participating in the media and the ways they are portrayed, considering how their experiences take shape within the structural context of the cultural industries.

This insightful text will interest scholars, students, and researchers in media and communication, sociology of the media, documentary studies, and film studies, as well as those studying the cultural industries, media production, creative labour, and cultural policy.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.

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This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council [grant number AH/L503848/1]; and the Economic and Social Research Council [grant number ES/Y007808/1].

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coleman, Emily

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.     Introduction

2.     Motivations

3.     Casting

4.     Consent

5.     Relationships

6.     Wellbeing

7.     Presence and Absence

8.     The Final Cut

9.     Documentary Contributors and What Their Experiences Tell Us About the Cultural Industries

Über Autor(innen)

Emily Coleman is a postdoctoral fellow at King’s College London, whose research has been supported by both the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council. Previously, she worked in the TV industry for over 15 years, producing and directing factual programmes and documentaries for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, and Sky.