Part I. Theorizing and Historicizing Authorship
Part II. Contesting Authorship
Part III. Industrializing Authorship
Part IV. Expanding Authorship
Part V. Relocating Authorship.

1. Introduction: The Problem of Media Authorship
Part I. Theorizing and Historicizing Authorship
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
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
Notes
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
Notes
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
Notes
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
Notes
Part II. Contesting Authorship
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
Notes
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
Notes
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
Notes
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''
Conclusion
Notes
11. Comics, Creators, and Copyright: On the Ownership of Serial Narratives by Multiple Authors
Moral Rights of Authorship
Economic Rights of Authors
Shaping Associations
Conclusion
Notes
Part III. Industrializing Authorship
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
Conclusion
Notes
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?
Conclusion
Notes
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
Conclusion
Notes
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
Conclusion
Notes
16. Transmedia Architectures of Creation: An Interview with Ivan Askwith
17. Dubbing the Noise: Square Enix and Corporate Creation of Videogames
Introduction
Corporations, Globalization, Cosmopolitanism
A Developer's Self-Development: Square Enix
Square Enix's Cosmopolitan Disposition
A Spectrum of Dispositions
Conclusions
Notes
Part IV. Expanding Authorship
18. Authorship Below-the-Line
Introduction
The Problem of Collectivity
Legal and Contractual Constraints on BTL Authorship
Economic Stimuli and BTL Authorial Discourses
Material Conditions: Forces of Authorial Disorder
Conclusion
Notes
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
Notes
20. Scoring Authorship: An Interview with Bear McCreary
Notes
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
Conclusion
Notes
22. Collaboration and Co-Creation in Networked Environments: An Interview with Molly Wright Steenson
Notes
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?)
Notes
Part V. Relocating Authorship
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''
Conclusion
Notes
25. Auteurs at the Video Store
Auteur Sections
Constructing Auteurs as Process
Video Store Auteurs
Conclusion
Notes
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
Notes
27. Scripting Kinshasa's Teleserials: Reflections on Authorship, Creativity, and Ownership
Authorship?
(In)Stability of the Script
Sacred Authors
Ownership
Creative Adaptations
Conclusion
Notes
28. "We Never Do Anything Alone'': An Interview on Academic Authorship with Kathleen Fitzpatrick.