for media researchChapter 3 - "The Betrayal"
About Craig Gilbert, who created An American Family
OTHER STUFF
An American Family sent reality tv on a new path.
> "If Candid Camera had launched the prank show, and Queen for a Day the game show, An American Family would initiate the third, and maybe the most powerful, thread of reality programming: the real-life soap opera." [p.49]
essay in Esquire "Dear Pat, Bill, Lance, Delilah, Grant, Kevin and Michele: I Loved You" by Merle Miller
> "a witty, humane meditation on both An American Family and the vitriol that greeted it" [p.72]
> "In a deeply divided country, Miller wrote, An American Family had united the population in feeling superior to its subjects."
this is very interesting to me--this is what so much of reality tv is now...very interesting
An American Family also had the first instance of a reality tv show reunion episode (An American Family Revisited: The Louds Ten Years Later) but the book doesn't think it was very good
> the author instead hypes up Lance Loud! A Death in An American Family and finds it much more striking
FURTHER RESEARCH
- A Married Couple 1970 documentary that pre-dated An American Family in how it captured real life
- The Underground Man: a noir thriller about moral rot in Santa Barbara, California, that inspired Gilbert to check out the area for his show
- Real Life 1979 mockumentary based on An American Family
- The Police Tapes the next doc project by Susan and Alan Raymond (filmmakers for An American Family) it was released in 1977 and won a bunch of awards
- An American Family link
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