competing authorships
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A presentation on the importance of negotiation and forging a community of purpose, while treating all members of that community as authors and/or creative individuals.TRANSCRIPT
Negotiating Authorships
Laurence RawBaşkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Africans were denied film authorship for over half a century: cinema would be used as a tool to legitimize and aid the colonial project in films such as Edmund T. Gréville’s Princesse Tam Tam (1935) or Sanders of the River (also 1935)
“Official” Authors
“Unofficial” Authors
Of Authorship?
We go on , constructing ourselves through narrative … it is as irresistible as a way of making sense of human interaction … If we lacked the capacity to make stories about ourselves, there would be no such thing as selfhood (Jerome Bruner)
Plural Authors
Self-Narratives Contain …
Autonomy Commitment
Strategies to Balance the Two Elements
“Authorship” is a democratic process common to all
individuals
Orhan Pamuk
Relationships Between Plural “Authors”
Community of Purpose
Values ALL Group Members
Engages in DIALOGUE!
Negotiates …
… and perpetually
adapts
A film or TV program’s
community of purpose
Authorship Should Acknowledge
Equality
Beyond Binaries
Individual Self-narratives
How Communities of Purpose Negotiate Self-narratives and vice
versa