A Companion to Media Authorship

A Companion to Media Authorship offers 28 groundbreaking chapters which investigate the practices, attributions, and meanings of authorship. Revitalizing the study within media and cultural studies, this diverse and global collection provides the definitive work on the subject. Rethinks cultures of authorship and challenges the concept of auteurism across multiple media forms Moves beyond notions of the individual to focus on how authorship is collaborative, contested, and networked, examining cultures of authorship and the practicalities of how it works Draws on the cutting–edge research of scholars and practitioners whose work has produced significant new insights into the field Examines a wide range of media, including television, social media, radio, videogames, transmedia, music, and comic books Offers an impressive global focus, including pieces on Mexican music, amateur film production in Nairobi slums, tele–serial production in Kinshasa, Hong Kong film, and the marketing of Bollywood INDICE: Notes 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 atWork: 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 TellingWhose 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

• ISBN: 978-0-470-67096-5
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 576
• Fecha Publicación: 09/04/2013
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés