A companion to media authorship / edited by Jonathan Gray and Derek Johnson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gray, Jonathan (Jonathan Alan)

Johnson, Derek, 1979-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts: authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 561 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass. : Wiley Blackwell, 2013.

Summary:

A Companion to Media Authorship "Gray and Johnson have brought together a stellar group of authors whose works deftly explicate the complexities of negotiating 'authorship' across a range of cultural production sites. This definitive collection is an important and long-overdue contribution to contemporary media studies." Serra Tinic, author of On Location: Canada's Television Industry in a Global Market "Wide-ranging and global, historical and contemporary, brimming with insights enlarging our understanding of media production and reception, this book is an important contribution to the study of authorship." Michael Z. Newman, author of Indie: An American Film Culture While the idea of authorship has transcended the literary to play a meaningful role in the cultures of film, television, games, comics, and other emerging digital forms, our understanding of it is still too often limited to assumptions about solitary geniuses and individual creative expression. A Companion to Media Authorship is a ground-breaking collection that reframes media authorship as a question of culture in which authorship is as much a construction tied to authority and power as it is a constructive and creative force of its own. Gathering together the insights of leading media scholars and practitioners, 28 original chapters map the field of authorship in a cutting-edge, multi-perspective, and truly authoritative manner. The contributors develop new and innovative ways of thinking about the practices, attributions, and meanings of authorship. They situate and examine authorship within collaborative models of industrial production, socially networked media platforms, globally diverse traditions of creativity, complex consumption practices, and a host of institutional and social contexts. Together, the essays provide the definitive study on the subject by demonstrating that authorship is a field in which media culture can be transformed, revitalized, and reimagined.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Problem of Media Authorship

Part I Theorizing and Historicizing Authorship

Chapter 2 Authorship and the Narrative of the Self

Introduction: Three Acts

Act I. God - or is it Mammon? - is an Author

Act II. No-One is an Author

Act III. Everyone is an Author

Notes

Chapter 3 The Return of the Author: Ethos and Identity Politics

Fraught Authorship and its Ethical Implications

Birth of the Author

Death of the Author

Postmodern Subjects and Why Identities Matter

Hipster Racism and ''Other Asians''

''Woman's Work'' and Squaring Up

Pseudonyms and Online Identities

Authority and Gender in Fan Texts

Fan Reader/Writer Interaction

Authorial Ethos

Chapter 4 Making Music: Copyright Law and Creative Processes

Musical Visions: Sacralization and Changing Nineteenth-Century Conceptions of Creation

Sacralization, Copyright Conceptions of Creativity, and the Rise of African-Based Music

Copyright, Borrowing, and the Blues

Conclusion

Chapter 5 When is the Author?

A Recent History of the Author

Many Authors

Incomplete Authorship

Many Readers or Many Authors?

Clusters of Authorship

Cluster Flux: A Conclusion

Chapter 6 Hidden Hands at Work: Authorship, the Intentional Flux, and the Dynamics of Collaboration

Introduction

The Author's Intentional Flux: A Low Altitude Theory

Preliminary Stances: Bresson's Precompositional Commitment to Visual Austerity

Bresson and Burel: Problems and Solutions in ''Stripping the Wires''

Conclusion: The Intentional Flux Model at the Intersection of Film and Media Studies

Part II Contesting Authorship

Chapter 7 Participation is Magic: Collaboration, Authorial Legitimacy, and the Audience Function.

Everypony is an Author?

From the Glue Factory to the TV Factory

Authorship Straight from the Horse's Mouth

Taking the Reins

Conclusion: Horse Power

Chapter 8 Telling Whose Stories? Re-examining Author Agency in Self-Representational Media in the Slums of Nairobi

Self-Representational Media Production

The Research Setting

Levels of Analysis in Self-Representational Media Production

Self-Representational Media Authorship

Chapter 9 Never Ending Story: Authorship, Seriality, and the Radio Writers Guild

Streaming Seriality as Cultural Form

Irna Phillips and the Perils of Serial Authorship

The Organization of Authorship

Herding Cats - Invisible Cats

Defining and Defending Radio Authorship

The Consolidation of Authorship

Chapter 10 From Chris Chibnall to Fox: Torchwood's Marginalized Authors and Counter-Discourses of TV Authorship

Tactical Authorship: Chris Chibnall as Showrunner ''Tenant''

Author Pseudonyms in Industry Counter-Discourse: Introducing Amos Crumpsall, Stone D. McFerris,and WebleyWildfoot

The US-UK Torchwood that Wasn't: Fox as ''Evil''/''Lovely''

Chapter 11 Comics, Creators, and Copyright: On the Ownership of Serial Narratives by Multiple Authors

Moral Rights of Authorship

Economic Rights of Authors

Shaping Associations

Part III Industrializing Authorship

Chapter 12 "Benny Hill Theatre'': "Race,'' Commodification, and the Politics of Representation

Situating the Burden of Representation

The Politics of British Asian Theatre Production

''Benny Hill Theatre'' and the Commercialization of Asian Theatre

Authorship and Cultures of Production

Chapter 13 Cynical Authorship and the Hong Kong Studio System: Li Hanxiang and His Shaw Brothers Erotic Films.

Authorship in a Wider Spectrum

Li Hanxiang as Model of the Cynical Author in Cinema

Li and the Studio: Whose Authorship?

Chapter 14 The Authorial Function of the Television Channel: Augmentation and Identity

The Tensions of Authorship in the Broadcast Era

The Television Channel as Brand in the Cable/Satellite Era

The Television Channel in the Digital Era

Chapter 15 The Mouse House of Cards: Disney Tween Stars and Questions of Institutional Authorship

The (Inter)Textuality of Stars and Star Brands

Reconciling Duff, Disney, and Dollar Signs

Developing Disney's Authorship Strategies

Chapter 16 Transmedia Architectures of Creation: An Interview with Ivan Askwith

Chapter 17 Dubbing the Noise: Square Enix and Corporate Creation of Videogames

Corporations, Globalization, Cosmopolitanism

A Developer's Self-Development: Square Enix

Square Enix's Cosmopolitan Disposition

A Spectrum of Dispositions

Conclusions

Part IV Expanding Authorship

Chapter 18 Authorship Below-the-Line

The Problem of Collectivity

Legal and Contractual Constraints on BTL Authorship

Economic Stimuli and BTL Authorial Discourses

Material Conditions: Forces of Authorial Disorder

Chapter 19 Production Design and the Invisible Arts of Seeing

Exploring the Black Hole

The Author-Auteur Conundrum

Power in the Shadows

Virtually Real

The Big Mash-Up

The Story Space Ahead

Chapter 20 Scoring Authorship: An Interview with Bear McCreary

Chapter 21 Bowdown to Your New God: Misha Collins and Decentered Authorship in the Digital Age

Expanding Transmedia

Who Has the Right to Write? Authorship Made Visible

The Collectively Authored Transmedia Star.

@mishacollins: Negotiating Power, Play, and Affect Online

Transmedia Power Struggles

Decentering Transmedia Authorship

Chapter 22 Collaboration and Co-Creation in Networked Environments: An Interview with Molly Wright Steenson

Chapter 23 Dawn of the Undead Author: Fanboy Auteurism and Zack Snyder's "Vision''

Dawn of the Undead Author

Constructing the Fanboy Auteur

Watching the Watchmen: Authorial Paratexts and DVD Commentaries

Suckerpunching the Fanboy Auteur: Critical Reception of Sucker Punch

Conclusion (Or, What About the Fangirl Auteur?)

Part V Relocating Authorship

Chapter 24 Authoring Hype in Bollywood

''It's All About Knowing Your Audience''

Reimagining the Audience: A Tale of Two Mahurats

Bollywood-izing MTV-India

Knowing the Audience, MBA-Style

''You Cannot Piss Off Anyone''

Chapter 25 Auteurs at the Video Store

Auteur Sections

Constructing Auteurs as Process

Video Store Auteurs

Chapter 26 Authorship and the State: Narcocorridos in Mexico and the New Aesthetics of Nation

Thesis: Censoring Narcocorridos

Antithesis: El Movimiento Alterado

A Brief Synthesis by Way of Conclusion

Chapter 27 Scripting Kinshasa's Teleserials: Reflections on Authorship, Creativity, and Ownership

Authorship?

(In)Stability of the Script

Sacred Authors

Ownership

Creative Adaptations

Chapter 28 "We Never Do Anything Alone'': An Interview on Academic Authorship with Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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