Book description
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
Jonathan Gray is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at
University of Wisconsin, Madison. 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 University of Wisconsin, Madison. 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 the
co-editor of the forthcoming Intermediaries: Management of Culture
and Cultures of Management (with Avi Santo and Derek Kompare, 2014).
