It can construct a meaningful narrative out of, say, all the pictures you've ever posted to the Internet even if you didn't intend that to happen.
Weaving together the loose narrative ends of Say Anything that night will be new work from Terence Degnan, Heidi Schreck, Amy Sohn, Kate Cortesi, and Jim Hanas.
This and the fact that scholars have long used Dorothy's writings as a background resource have, suggests Wilson, obscured both the originality of Dorothy's voice and the strangeness of the story she tells or, rather, which she does not tell, for Dorothy does not deal in straightforward narrative of who said what to whom, and what they meant by it.
"Rose Pak fits into the historical narrative of Chinatown," said David C. Latterman, associate director of the graduate program in public affairs at the University of San Francisco.
"It's the narrative of empire," says Coogan, "and, of course, they applied it to Greece.
"He takes 'Doctor Who' and pushes the envelope the whole time, not in terms of taste and decency but in terms of ideas and emotional intelligence, the size of feeling and epic stroke of narrative breadth," said Jane Tranter, the BBC's head of fiction.
They directed just 23% of all the films considered for the study – women directed 28% of documentaries and 18% of narrative features, said Martha Lauzen, the center's executive director.
"There are just suggestions of narrative," he said recently in his studio here, lined with stacks of newspapers he keeps around for reference.
"I took everything from writing fiction in terms of narrative, emotion, rhythm, theme, and so on and put it into the writing of that book, which contains what I know as an academic – it's criticism that has shades of narrative," he said.
"As magazines become more-premium objects, they use the paper and the physical experience as part of the narrative," said Andrew Losowsky, editor of the Magtastic Blogsplosion, a blog that chronicles the global magazine industry.
