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