Companion to Media Authorship

Jonathan Gray is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. He is author of Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality (2006), Television Entertainment (2008), Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts (2010), and Television Studies (with Amanda Lotz, 2012). He is co-editor of, amongst others, Battleground: The Media (with Robin Andersen, 2008) and Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era (with Jeffrey P. Jones and Ethan Thompson, 2009).Derek Johnson is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. His research focuses on production cultures and creative identities in the media industries. He is the author of Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries (2013), as well as co-editor of the forthcoming Intermediaries: Management of Culture and Cultures of Management (with Avi Santo and Derek Kompare, 2014).

“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)

• 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