MICHAEL WOOD ON… SOCIETY AND FAME
Aug 06, 2020
3 minutes
ILLUSTRATION BY FEMKE DE JONG
“Reality TV has changed our culture in a way that historians can’t ignore”
he changes in television during my time making films have been truly astonishing. July marked 20 years since the first episode of aired on British TV, and Radio 4 recently broadcast a fascinating show called (available on BBC Sounds), which explores how reality TV has given birth to new kinds of societal attitudes pervasive enough to mark a change and it was written by Guy Debord, who played a key role in the May 1968 revolt. Not lacking in self-confidence, Debord called it “the most important book of the 20th century”.
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