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Negotiating Authorships Laurence Raw Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey

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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.

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Negotiating Authorships

Laurence RawBaşkent University, Ankara, Turkey

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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)

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“Official” Authors

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“Unofficial” Authors

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Of Authorship?

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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

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Self-Narratives Contain …

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Autonomy Commitment

Strategies to Balance the Two Elements

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“Authorship” is a democratic process common to all

individuals

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Orhan Pamuk

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Relationships Between Plural “Authors”

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Community of Purpose

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Values ALL Group Members

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Engages in DIALOGUE!

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Negotiates …

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… and perpetually

adapts

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A film or TV program’s

community of purpose

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Authorship Should Acknowledge

Equality

Beyond Binaries

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Individual Self-narratives

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How Communities of Purpose Negotiate Self-narratives and vice

versa