And cinema's first word on reality television comes in Death Watch, Bertrand Tavernier's alarmingly prescient futuristic drama from 1979, with Harvey Keitel as a man with cameras in his eyes.
Because sometimes it makes you feel like a caged animal, being followed by 20 men with cameras all day.
Little by little, this benign patch of unspoiled paradise becomes colonised by burly men with cameras, scaffolding, walkie-talkies.
Meanwhile, the men with cameras stake out Berry's house every morning and follow her wherever she goes.
As if anybody who wasn't drunk would ever drive into a pillar to escape men with cameras.
Speaking in an interview with The Independent magazine, Allen described being "followed by 20 men with cameras all day", culminating in a car accident this month during which she was photographed in a distressed and angry state.
America is the land of spurious, seat-of-the-pants self-invention, and Mr. Joost and Mr. Shulman, a couple of young men with cameras and college degrees, find themselves in a real-life variation on a venerable American theme.
Lords, who is now thirty-five, arrived at Global 33, on Second Avenue, at around eight-thirty and was immediately surrounded by three dozen men with cameras and zoom lenses.
To keep that with no ambiguity…" I wonder if Miller had drawn on some of her own experiences of a very different kind of harassment – from the media, being chased down the road by 15 large men with cameras every day – to give her something of an insight into how under siege Hedren must have felt.
Instead, no more than a dozen women turned up, flanked by hundreds of men with cameras.
