A Companion to Media Authorship (Hardcover)

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