Call for Papers Between Reality and Fiction on Canadian Television Historically in Canada, the focus of television studies has been on its role as a technology of public policy and nation building. Studies focus on either the public mandate or political economy of Canadian television. Little work examines the content of Canadian television and how it functions in everyday life in Canada. Our collection aims to fill a sizable gap in scholarship about Canadian television content. In his book Television: Technology and Cultural Form (1974), Raymond Williams noted that television produces hybrid forms- from the blurring of domestic and public spheres to the blending of current events and drama. Canadian television has been a particularly fertile realm for such hybridization. According to David Hogarth in Documentary Television in Canada (2002), that is because much of Canadian cultural funding is traditionally allocated to current events programming, as well as education and other public services. Given this funding climate, media professionals weave their dramas and other creative projects somewhere between reality and fiction. The resulting hybrid realism that seems so much a part of Canadian television is something this collection wishes to explore. We invite proposals for scholarly articles that are case studies, either historical or contemporary, of programs made for broadcast on Canadian television. We welcome cases from English-, French- and other language programming. We encourage a broad range of approaches including textual analyses, audience/reception studies, and studies of the conditions for creativity. The topic-between reality and fiction on Canadian television- invites cases that could include but are not limited to: … Historical Costume Dramas … Docudrama/Drama-docs/Re-enactments … Real Crime Shows … Popular Genres in News Narrative or Documentary … Mockumentary/Parody … Reality Television … Lifestyle and Travel Shows Please email abstracts of 500 words and a brief biography (in English) to Dr. Zoë Druick, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University (druick@sfu.ca) and Patsy Kotsopoulos, Film Studies Program, University of British Columbia. Deadline: November 30, 2004 -- Dr. Zoë Druick Assistant Professor School of Communication RCB 6228 Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Phone: 604-291-5398 Fax: 604-291-4024