2001: A Space Odyssey

models of broadcasting as public service broadcasting declines, is very informed. She pays attention to the globalisation of culture with such reminders that ‘fly on the wall’ formats were drawn from the United States as in the case of Paul Watson’s copy of The American Family (1973), a point that many accounts of his British version of the series, The Family (1974) omit. Issues in Contemporary Documentary brings the study of documentary up-to-date through a range of contemporary examples, which is particularly useful for journalism students who are interested in documentary practice, whilst offering historians of film and television an important contextual resource for understanding issues in documentary today.