Table of Contents

Middletown - the series; the beginning of the film project - National Endowment for the Humanities; seeking the way; completing the series; things go sour; on the air; "Seventeen" refuses to die; what happened to everybody?; reflections and conclusions.

Reviews

"Middletown: The Making of a Documentary Film Series will be long cited as a critical contribution to our understanding of the social effects of filmmaking, a field about which we know very little at the moment." -- Dr. Brian Winston of Pennsylvania State University, University Park
"The book stands out as a case study and for the clarity with which it presents its vision of competing models for documentary film based on research. There are few other case studies dealing with such a high profile series of films of interest to both scholars of American and other cultures." -- Christopher Musello of University of New Mexico, Albuquerque