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Book SynopsisGathering together the insights of leading media scholars and practitioners, 28 original chapters map the field of authorship in a cutting-edge, multi-perspectival, and truly authoritative manner. The contributors develop new and innovative ways of thinking about the practices, attributions, and meanings of authorship.
Trade Review“All in all, an engaging examination of the multiple dimensions of authorship in the 21st century. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (Choice, 1 December 2013)
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix
1 Introduction: The Problem of Media Authorship 1
Derek Johnson and Jonathan Gray
Part I Theorizing and Historicizing Authorship
2 Authorship and the Narrative of the Self 23
John Hartley
3 The Return of the Author: Ethos and Identity Politics 48
Kristina Busse
4 Making Music: Copyright Law and Creative Processes 69
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
5 When is the Author? 88
Jonathan Gray
6 Hidden Hands at Work: Authorship, the Intentional Flux, and the Dynamics of Collaboration 112
Colin Burnett
Part II Contesting Authorship
7 Participation is Magic: Collaboration, Authorial Legitimacy, and the Audience Function 135
Derek Johnson
8 Telling Whose Stories? Re-examining Author Agency in Self-Representational Media in the Slums of Nairobi 158
Brian Ekdale
9 Never Ending Story: Authorship, Seriality, and the Radio Writers Guild 181
Michele Hilmes
10 From Chris Chibnall to Fox: Torchwood’s Marginalized Authors and Counter-Discourses of TV Authorship 200
Matt Hills
11 Comics, Creators, and Copyright: On the Ownership of Serial Narratives by Multiple Authors 221
Ian Gordon
Part III Industrializing Authorship
12 ‘‘Benny Hill Theatre’’: ‘‘Race,’’ Commodification, and the Politics of Representation 239
Anamik Saha
13 Cynical Authorship and the Hong Kong Studio System: Li Hanxiang and His Shaw Brothers Erotic Films 257
Stephen Teo
14 The Authorial Function of the Television Channel: Augmentation and Identity 275
Catherine Johnson
15 The Mouse House of Cards: Disney Tween Stars and Questions of Institutional Authorship 296
Lindsay Hogan
16 Transmedia Architectures of Creation: An Interview with Ivan Askwith 314
Jonathan Gray
17 Dubbing the Noise: Square Enix and Corporate Creation of Videogames 324
Mia Consalvo
Part IV Expanding Authorship
18 Authorship Below-the-Line 349
John T. Caldwell
19 Production Design and the Invisible Arts of Seeing 370
David Brisbin
20 Scoring Authorship: An Interview with Bear McCreary 391
Derek Johnson
21 #Bowdown to Your New God: Misha Collins and Decentered Authorship in the Digital Age 403
Louisa Ellen Stein
22 Collaboration and Co-Creation in Networked Environments: An Interview with Molly Wright Steenson 426
Megan Sapnar Ankerson
23 Dawn of the Undead Author: Fanboy Auteurism and Zack Snyder’s ‘‘Vision’’ 440
Suzanne Scott
Part V Relocating Authorship
24 Authoring Hype in Bollywood 465
Aswin Punathambekar
25 Auteurs at the Video Store 485
Daniel Herbert
26 Authorship and the State: Narcocorridos in Mexico and the New Aesthetics of Nation 506
Hector Amaya
27 Scripting Kinshasa’s Teleserials: Reflections on Authorship, Creativity, and Ownership 525
Katrien Pype
28 ‘‘We Never Do Anything Alone’’: An Interview on Academic Authorship with Kathleen Fitzpatrick 544
Jonathan Gray and Derek Johnson
Index 551
