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Alisa Perren / University of Texas at Austin

Alisa Perren is a professor in the Department of Radio-TV-Film and Director of the Center for Entertainment and Media Industries at The University of Texas at Austin. She is co-editor of Media Industries: History, Theory, and Method (2009), author of Indie, Inc.: Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s (2012), co-author of The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood (2021), and co-founder and editorial collective member of the journal Media Industries.

Texas in Close-Up: Exploring the Lone Star State’s Media Ecosystem
Alisa Perren / University of Texas at Austin

July 17, 2024 Alisa Perren / University of Texas at Austin One comment

Alisa Perren welcomes readers to Flow’s Special Issue on the Texas media industries by describing the complexities of defining and building a media industry at the state and local level.

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The Future of Television is…Comics?
Alisa Perren / University of Texas at Austin

January 20, 2014 Alisa Perren / University of Texas at Austin 8 comments

A consideration of television’s increasing investment in comic book properties.

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More Dark Nights for DC Comics and Time Warner?
Alisa Perren / Georgia State University

September 18, 2008 Alisa Perren / University of Texas at Austin 5 comments

An examination of the complex role Marvel and DC comics play in Hollywood.

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Up, Up, and Away? Separating Fact from Fiction in the Comic Book Business
Alisa Perren / Georgia State University

August 21, 2008 Alisa Perren / University of Texas at Austin 5 comments

A first-hand account of Comic-Con 2008 and a critique of the stereotypes that accompany comic book conventions.

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I Don’t Think We’re In Hollywood Anymore: Television Series Go On Location
Alisa Perren / Georgia State University

June 25, 2008 Alisa Perren / University of Texas at Austin 7 comments

Alisa Perren / Georgia State University

A consideration of the way on-location shooting has changed television production.

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Deal of a “Lifetime”? A New Future for Project Runway
Alisa Perren / Georgia State University

May 8, 2008 Alisa Perren / University of Texas at Austin 3 comments

How will Lifetime’s acquisition of Project Runway impact the show?

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From Cynicism to Sentimentality: The Rise of the Quirky Indie

February 27, 2008 Alisa Perren / University of Texas at Austin 19 comments

Does Juno’s critical box-office success suggest a growing movement of hope in American culture?

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I Never Promised You A Rose: Exposing the Unreality of the Dating-Reality Program

December 7, 2007 Alisa Perren / University of Texas at Austin 5 comments

How an honest decision on a dating show lays bare the falsity of reality programs and the complicity of the audience.

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