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 CultureWhile 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.

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 CultureWhile 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.

Notes on Contributors ix1 Introduction: The Problem of Media Authorship 1Derek Johnson and Jonathan GrayPart I Theorizing and Historicizing Authorship2 Authorship and the Narrative of the Self 23John Hartley3 The Return of the Author: Ethos and Identity Politics 48Kristina Busse4 Making Music: Copyright Law and Creative Processes 69Olufunmilayo B. Arewa5 When is the Author? 88Jonathan Gray6 Hidden Hands at Work: Authorship, the Intentional Flux, and the Dynamics of Collaboration 112Colin BurnettPart II Contesting Authorship7 Participation is Magic: Collaboration, Authorial Legitimacy, and the Audience Function 135Derek Johnson8 Telling Whose Stories? Re-examining Author Agency in Self-Representational Media in the Slums of Nairobi 158Brian Ekdale9 Never Ending Story: Authorship, Seriality, and the Radio Writers Guild 181Michele Hilmes10 From Chris Chibnall to Fox: Torchwood's Marginalized Authors and Counter-Discourses of TV Authorship 200Matt Hills11 Comics, Creators, and Copyright: On the Ownership of Serial Narratives by Multiple Authors 221Ian GordonPart III Industrializing Authorship12 ''Benny Hill Theatre'': ''Race,'' Commodification, and the Politics of Representation 239Anamik Saha13 Cynical Authorship and the Hong Kong Studio System: Li Hanxiang and His Shaw Brothers Erotic Films 257Stephen Teo14 The Authorial Function of the Television Channel: Augmentation and Identity 275Catherine Johnson15 The Mouse House of Cards: Disney Tween Stars and Questions of Institutional Authorship 296Lindsay Hogan16 Transmedia Architectures of Creation: An Interview with Ivan Askwith 314Jonathan Gray17 Dubbing the Noise: Square Enix and Corporate Creation of Videogames 324Mia ConsalvoPart IV Expanding Authorship18 Authorship Below-the-Line 349John T. Caldwell19 Production Design and the Invisible Arts of Seeing 370David Brisbin20 Scoring Authorship: An Interview with Bear McCreary 391Derek Johnson21 #Bowdown to Your New God: Misha Collins and Decentered Authorship in the Digital Age 403Louisa Ellen Stein22 Collaboration and Co-Creation in Networked Environments: An Interview with Molly Wright Steenson 426Megan Sapnar Ankerson23 Dawn of the Undead Author: Fanboy Auteurism and Zack Snyder's ''Vision'' 440Suzanne ScottPart V Relocating Authorship24 Authoring Hype in Bollywood 465Aswin Punathambekar25 Auteurs at the Video Store 485Daniel Herbert26 Authorship and the State: Narcocorridos in Mexico and the New Aesthetics of Nation 506Hector Amaya27 Scripting Kinshasa's Teleserials: Reflections on Authorship, Creativity, and Ownership 525Katrien Pype28 ''We Never Do Anything Alone'': An Interview on Academic Authorship with Kathleen Fitzpatrick 544Jonathan Gray and Derek JohnsonIndex 551