Narrative enables the interpreter to explain the misfit between facts and models. It clarifies discrepancies and fills in absent complexities. Most importantly, it specifies ‘tempo, duration, and pace’ of narrative elements

As we move up the budget range, we start to see stronger correlations, with horror moving into the stronger cohort of correlated genres.

“I argue, however, that the negotiated and collective author-ship is an almost unavoidable and determining reality in contemporary film/ television. . . . A systematic struggle over control still very much determines authorship, in some ways evoking the studio era.”