Alisa Perren
Biographic Data
| ID | 4989090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alisa Perren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Perren |
| SIGNATURE | PERREN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3817-3567 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood
The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood traces the evolving relationship between the American comic book industry and Hollywood from the launch of X-Men, Spider-Man, and Smallville in the early 2000s through the ascent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Arrowverse, and the Walking Dead Universe in the 2010s. Perren and Steirer illustrate how the American comic book industry simultaneously has functioned throughout the first two decades …
Making Media: Production, Practices, and Professions
The bigger picture
Through case studies of how fans are imagined, targeted, engaged, and valued by two different comic book publishers—mainstream DC Comics and independent Image Comics—the chapter illustrates the utility of a more nuanced analysis of the industry-creative-fan relationship. Most scholarship as well as most journalistic coverage of the American comic book industry has focused on Marvel and DC Comics. Since the early 1980s, scholars—especially those d…
Avenues of Participation and Strategies of Control: Video Film Production and Social Mobility in Ethiopia and Southern Nigeria
Media industry studies scholars rely on a variety of sources to conduct their research, including court proceedings, annual reports, press releases, archival records, third-party industry reports, policy documents, magazine features, and newspaper articles. Such sources can provide a rich understanding of issues like ownership patterns, business strategies, government-industry relations, and labor practices. However, these sources often cannot pr…
Theorizing Television’s Writer–Producer: Re-viewing The Producer’s Medium
Alisa Perren and Thomas Schatz honor television studies scholar and former Peabody Director Horace Newcomb’s career. The authors illustrate how one of Newcomb’s less frequently cited books, The Producer’s Medium (coauthored with Robert Alley), expresses themes central to his larger body of work and serves as a groundbreaking study of American television, authorship, and industry in its own right. In addition, they illustrate key ways that the boo…
Business as Unusual: Conglomerate-Sized Challenges for Film and Television in the Digital Arena
This article examines the diverse strategies that the film and television divisions of media conglomerates have employed in circulating their properties online. The author shows how historical relationships as well as long-standing business practices tied to both theatrical motion pictures and prime-time television series have affected decisions about what, where, when, and how content is offered on the Internet. Comparing the Internet-related ac…
Theorizing Television’s Writer–Producer: Re-viewing The Producer’s Medium
Alisa Perren and Thomas Schatz honor television studies scholar and former Peabody Director Horace Newcomb’s career. The authors illustrate how one of Newcomb’s less frequently cited books, The Producer’s Medium (coauthored with Robert Alley), expresses themes central to his larger body of work and serves as a groundbreaking study of American television, authorship, and industry in its own right. In addition, they illustrate key ways that the boo…
Business as Unusual: Conglomerate-Sized Challenges for Film and Television in the Digital Arena
This article examines the diverse strategies that the film and television divisions of media conglomerates have employed in circulating their properties online. The author shows how historical relationships as well as long-standing business practices tied to both theatrical motion pictures and prime-time television series have affected decisions about what, where, when, and how content is offered on the Internet. Comparing the Internet-related ac…
Theorizing Television’s Writer–Producer: Re-viewing The Producer’s Medium
Alisa Perren and Thomas Schatz honor television studies scholar and former Peabody Director Horace Newcomb’s career. The authors illustrate how one of Newcomb’s less frequently cited books, The Producer’s Medium (coauthored with Robert Alley), expresses themes central to his larger body of work and serves as a groundbreaking study of American television, authorship, and industry in its own right. In addition, they illustrate key ways that the boo…
Avenues of Participation and Strategies of Control: Video Film Production and Social Mobility in Ethiopia and Southern Nigeria
Media industry studies scholars rely on a variety of sources to conduct their research, including court proceedings, annual reports, press releases, archival records, third-party industry reports, policy documents, magazine features, and newspaper articles. Such sources can provide a rich understanding of issues like ownership patterns, business strategies, government-industry relations, and labor practices. However, these sources often cannot pr…
The bigger picture
Through case studies of how fans are imagined, targeted, engaged, and valued by two different comic book publishers—mainstream DC Comics and independent Image Comics—the chapter illustrates the utility of a more nuanced analysis of the industry-creative-fan relationship. Most scholarship as well as most journalistic coverage of the American comic book industry has focused on Marvel and DC Comics. Since the early 1980s, scholars—especially those d…
Making Media: Production, Practices, and Professions
The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood
The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood traces the evolving relationship between the American comic book industry and Hollywood from the launch of X-Men, Spider-Man, and Smallville in the early 2000s through the ascent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Arrowverse, and the Walking Dead Universe in the 2010s. Perren and Steirer illustrate how the American comic book industry simultaneously has functioned throughout the first two decades …
Sociology (5 works) · Advertising (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works)