Vol 34, No 1 (2009)

Reality/Television

Cover Page

Shirley With Her Colour Cards
by Lorna Roth.

This photo was taken at the Fuji Film and Television Research Lab headquarters in Mt. Fuji, Japan, in 2004. It is part of an ongoing series of colour balance imagery related to Lorna Roth’s international research on technologies, skin colour, and sociocultural cognition. Her book, Colour Balance: Race, Technologies, and “Intelligent Design” is in progress. For more information about her work visit http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/comm/faculty/roth.html.

Table of Contents

Guest Editorial

Reality/Television PDF
Jean Bruce

Articles

That’s Me: Nationalism and Identity on Balkan Reality TV Abstract PDF
Zala Volcic, Mark Andrejevic
The Paradox of National Identity: Region, Nation, and Canadian Idol Abstract PDF
Boulou Ebanda de B’béri, Ruth Middlebrook
Reality TV Formats: The Case of Canadian Idol Abstract PDF
Doris Baltruschat
Chasing the Public: The CBC and the Debate Over Factual Entertainment on Canadian Airwaves Abstract PDF
Derek Foster
Home Improvement Television: Holmes on Homes Makes it Right Abstract PDF
Jean Bruce
Wild Bodies and True Lies: Carnival, Spectacle, and the Curious Case of Trailer Park Boys Abstract PDF
Patricia Hughes-Fuller
Looking at Shirley, the Ultimate Norm: Colour Balance, Image Technologies, and Cognitive Equity Abstract PDF
Lorna Roth

Reports

Strategies of Representing the Pain of Others: The Video Advocacy Institute Abstract PDF
Liz Miller, Martin Allor

Speech

Who Will Inherit the Airwaves? Third Annual Dr. Gail Guthrie Valaskakis Lecture on Diversity in Canadian Media Abstract PDF
Rita Shelton Deverell

In Memoriam

Paul Attallah: 1954-2009 PDF
Michael Dorland

Review Essay

Cosmic McLuhan PDF
Richard Cavell
Reading Television PDF
Paul Attallah

Reviews

Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television PDF
Andrea Braithwaite
Television Truths: Forms of Knowledge in Popular Culture PDF
Zoë Druick
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina PDF
Brian C.W. Gorman
News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment PDF
James Compton