Nick Perry

Nick Perry is Associate Professor of Film, TV and Media Studies at The University of Auckland. A former President of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, he has published extensively here and abroad, including contributing to and being advisory editor for the media section of the eleven-volume 3.5 million-word Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007). His books are Controlling Interests: Business, The State and Society in New Zealand (co-edited with John Deeks, AUP 1992), The Dominion of Signs: Television, Advertising and Other New Zealand Fictions (AUP, 1994), Hyperreality and Global Culture (Routledge, 1998) and Television in New Zealand (co-edited with Roger Horrocks, Oxford University Press, 2004).