Allison Perlman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1468620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison Perlman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison |
| FAMILY NAME | Perlman |
| SIGNATURE | PERLMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3479-5094 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Betraying the Dream (Machine)
This article investigates the history of content regulation in the US public television sector. It analyzes the context and consequences of an October 1971 decision by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) to remove a segment from National Educational Television’s (NET) popular series The Great American Dream Machine that alleged the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had recruited young men to infiltrate student groups and engage in violent a…
Mal Goode Reporting
Slavery before Roots
This article examines depictions of slavery on US television in the 1960s. Across the decade, episodes about the history of slavery surfaced as entries in anthology series on US history or in multi-episode specials dedicated to African American history. This article argues that television in the 1960s configured histories of slavery to address issues and questions raised by the Black Freedom Struggle. In this, the episodes directly engaged with t…
Black and White Together
Consumer's attitude, socio-demographic variables and willingness to purchase green housing in Israel
"Telecasting an "Effective Weapon for Peace
This article investigates the history of the International Television Federation, or Intertel. A collaboration between telecasters from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, Intertel throughout the 1960s produced and distributed public affairs documentaries for an international audience. Intertel's members positioned public affairs programming in the 1960s as an "effective weapon for peace." By making the nations of the world …
The Future of Change
Reviewed by: The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions by Ray Brescia Allison Perlman (bio) The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions By Ray Brescia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 240. The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions By Ray Brescia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 240. Ray Brescia's The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions offe…
Rube Tube
U.S. prime time television in the 1960s has been categorized as the “‘Idiot Sitcom’ Era,” a period of mindless comedies featuring grotesque families, supernatural characters, fish-out-of-water scenarios, and juvenile humor (Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable Tv Shows, 1946–Present [1979; 2009]). In her new book, Rube Tube, Sara K. Eskridge interrogates the seemingly most idiotic of the idiot sitcoms…
Public Interests
Winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) Nearly as soon as television began to enter American homes in the late 1940s, social activists recognized that it was a powerful tool for shaping the nation’s views. By targeting broadcast regulations and laws, both liberal and conservative activist groups have sought to influence what America sees on the small sc…
Injury Patterns Among Illegal Migrants from Africa in Israel
Equal time
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr’s address at the August 1963 March on Washington, and his dream of a future America on which he ended it, is an iconic, for some even synecdochical, moment of the black
Owning a Voice
Using the sale of Univision in 2007 to a consortium of private equity firms as our case study, this article demonstrates how the regulation of Spanish-language broadcasting has codified exclusionary definitions of media diversity and naturalized English-language citizens as the primary members of the televisual public sphere in the United States. We situate the regulation of Spanish-language broadcasting within the troubled history of media diver…
Rush Limbaugh and the Problem of the Color Line
Rush Limbaugh and the Problem of the Color Line Allison Perlman (bio) "What's next, folks," queried radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh on his October 31, 2011, program. "A cartoon on MSNBC showing Herman Cain with huge lips eating a watermelon?"1 Limbaugh was incensed over a story published in Politico that recounted how Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain had been accused of sexual harassment in the 1990s when he was chair of the Natio…
Deadwood, Generic Transformation, and Televisual History
This article explores how Deadwood (HBO, 2004–2006) revises the relationship between televisual history and the television Western. It argues that Deadwood, in reinventing the Western as a “quality television” series, self-consciously undermines the generic conventions of the television Western and reconceptualizes the epistemological status of the Western genre. Keywords: DeadwoodhistoryparatextsWestern Notes 1. “Historiophoty” is HaydenWhite's …
Whitewashing Diversity
This article examines the relationship between conservative discourse, racial politics, and broadcasting policy in the United States. It explores how conservative media personalities, pundits, and activists in 2009 claimed that efforts to increase broadcast diversity were, in actuality, attempts by liberals to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine—a policy that had required broadcasters to air both sides of controversial issues—through “the backdoor.” …
Flow TV
Introduction Part I: The Convergent Experience: Viewing Practices Across Media Forms 1. Media Interfaces, Networked Media Spaces, and the Mass Customization of Everyday Space, Daniel Chamberlain 2. It's Just Like a Mini-Mall: Textuality and Participatory Culture on YouTube, David Gurney 3. TiVoing Childhood: Time-Shifting a Generation's Concept of Television, Jason Mittell 4. Affective Convergence in Reality A Case Study in Divergence Culture, Ja…
Television Up in the Air
This paper examines the Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI), an educational television program that used airplanes to broadcast instructional television to schools across a six-state area in the Midwestern United States. The MPATI formed in 1959, telecast from 1961–1968, and officially dissolved in 1971. As this article argues, the history of the MPATI both challenges core assumptions about the uses and spaces of television…
Feminists In The Wasteland
This article investigates the television reform activism of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in the early 1970s in the United States. In particular, it focuses on NOW's petitions-to-deny license renewal of television stations. Like other social justice groups of the period, NOW drew on a recent court case, Office of Communication of United Church of Christ v. Federal Communications Commission (1966), which enabled the broadcasting public…
Public Interests
Winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) Nearly as soon as television began to enter American homes in the late 1940s, social activists recognized that it was a powerful tool for shaping the nation’s views. By targeting broadcast regulations and laws, both liberal and conservative activist groups have sought to influence what America sees on the small sc…
Feminists In The Wasteland
This article investigates the television reform activism of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in the early 1970s in the United States. In particular, it focuses on NOW's petitions-to-deny license renewal of television stations. Like other social justice groups of the period, NOW drew on a recent court case, Office of Communication of United Church of Christ v. Federal Communications Commission (1966), which enabled the broadcasting public…
Owning a Voice
Using the sale of Univision in 2007 to a consortium of private equity firms as our case study, this article demonstrates how the regulation of Spanish-language broadcasting has codified exclusionary definitions of media diversity and naturalized English-language citizens as the primary members of the televisual public sphere in the United States. We situate the regulation of Spanish-language broadcasting within the troubled history of media diver…
Whitewashing Diversity
This article examines the relationship between conservative discourse, racial politics, and broadcasting policy in the United States. It explores how conservative media personalities, pundits, and activists in 2009 claimed that efforts to increase broadcast diversity were, in actuality, attempts by liberals to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine—a policy that had required broadcasters to air both sides of controversial issues—through “the backdoor.” …
Television Up in the Air
This paper examines the Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI), an educational television program that used airplanes to broadcast instructional television to schools across a six-state area in the Midwestern United States. The MPATI formed in 1959, telecast from 1961–1968, and officially dissolved in 1971. As this article argues, the history of the MPATI both challenges core assumptions about the uses and spaces of television…
Feminists In The Wasteland
This article investigates the television reform activism of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in the early 1970s in the United States. In particular, it focuses on NOW's petitions-to-deny license renewal of television stations. Like other social justice groups of the period, NOW drew on a recent court case, Office of Communication of United Church of Christ v. Federal Communications Commission (1966), which enabled the broadcasting public…
Flow TV
Introduction Part I: The Convergent Experience: Viewing Practices Across Media Forms 1. Media Interfaces, Networked Media Spaces, and the Mass Customization of Everyday Space, Daniel Chamberlain 2. It's Just Like a Mini-Mall: Textuality and Participatory Culture on YouTube, David Gurney 3. TiVoing Childhood: Time-Shifting a Generation's Concept of Television, Jason Mittell 4. Affective Convergence in Reality A Case Study in Divergence Culture, Ja…
Television Up in the Air
This paper examines the Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI), an educational television program that used airplanes to broadcast instructional television to schools across a six-state area in the Midwestern United States. The MPATI formed in 1959, telecast from 1961–1968, and officially dissolved in 1971. As this article argues, the history of the MPATI both challenges core assumptions about the uses and spaces of television…
Deadwood, Generic Transformation, and Televisual History
This article explores how Deadwood (HBO, 2004–2006) revises the relationship between televisual history and the television Western. It argues that Deadwood, in reinventing the Western as a “quality television” series, self-consciously undermines the generic conventions of the television Western and reconceptualizes the epistemological status of the Western genre. Keywords: DeadwoodhistoryparatextsWestern Notes 1. “Historiophoty” is HaydenWhite's …
Whitewashing Diversity
This article examines the relationship between conservative discourse, racial politics, and broadcasting policy in the United States. It explores how conservative media personalities, pundits, and activists in 2009 claimed that efforts to increase broadcast diversity were, in actuality, attempts by liberals to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine—a policy that had required broadcasters to air both sides of controversial issues—through “the backdoor.” …
Rush Limbaugh and the Problem of the Color Line
Rush Limbaugh and the Problem of the Color Line Allison Perlman (bio) "What's next, folks," queried radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh on his October 31, 2011, program. "A cartoon on MSNBC showing Herman Cain with huge lips eating a watermelon?"1 Limbaugh was incensed over a story published in Politico that recounted how Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain had been accused of sexual harassment in the 1990s when he was chair of the Natio…
Equal time
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr’s address at the August 1963 March on Washington, and his dream of a future America on which he ended it, is an iconic, for some even synecdochical, moment of the black
Owning a Voice
Using the sale of Univision in 2007 to a consortium of private equity firms as our case study, this article demonstrates how the regulation of Spanish-language broadcasting has codified exclusionary definitions of media diversity and naturalized English-language citizens as the primary members of the televisual public sphere in the United States. We situate the regulation of Spanish-language broadcasting within the troubled history of media diver…
Injury Patterns Among Illegal Migrants from Africa in Israel
Public Interests
Winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) Nearly as soon as television began to enter American homes in the late 1940s, social activists recognized that it was a powerful tool for shaping the nation’s views. By targeting broadcast regulations and laws, both liberal and conservative activist groups have sought to influence what America sees on the small sc…
Rube Tube
U.S. prime time television in the 1960s has been categorized as the “‘Idiot Sitcom’ Era,” a period of mindless comedies featuring grotesque families, supernatural characters, fish-out-of-water scenarios, and juvenile humor (Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable Tv Shows, 1946–Present [1979; 2009]). In her new book, Rube Tube, Sara K. Eskridge interrogates the seemingly most idiotic of the idiot sitcoms…
"Telecasting an "Effective Weapon for Peace
This article investigates the history of the International Television Federation, or Intertel. A collaboration between telecasters from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, Intertel throughout the 1960s produced and distributed public affairs documentaries for an international audience. Intertel's members positioned public affairs programming in the 1960s as an "effective weapon for peace." By making the nations of the world …
The Future of Change
Reviewed by: The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions by Ray Brescia Allison Perlman (bio) The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions By Ray Brescia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 240. The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions By Ray Brescia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 240. Ray Brescia's The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions offe…
Consumer's attitude, socio-demographic variables and willingness to purchase green housing in Israel
Black and White Together
Slavery before Roots
This article examines depictions of slavery on US television in the 1960s. Across the decade, episodes about the history of slavery surfaced as entries in anthology series on US history or in multi-episode specials dedicated to African American history. This article argues that television in the 1960s configured histories of slavery to address issues and questions raised by the Black Freedom Struggle. In this, the episodes directly engaged with t…
Betraying the Dream (Machine)
This article investigates the history of content regulation in the US public television sector. It analyzes the context and consequences of an October 1971 decision by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) to remove a segment from National Educational Television’s (NET) popular series The Great American Dream Machine that alleged the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had recruited young men to infiltrate student groups and engage in violent a…
Mal Goode Reporting
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Media Studies and Communication (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Broadcasting (networking (5 works)