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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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Benjamin M. Han argues that while one might be inclined to identify specific elements of the film that appeal to the global audience, Kpop Demon Hunters prompts us to examine questions of national identity in terms of its Koreanness.

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Kallia O. Wright analyzes Dr. Bailey’s heart attack in Grey’s Anatomy, revealing how racial and gender stereotypes shape Black women’s medical treatment and self-advocacy within biased healthcare systems.

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