CTA 309 Final
Washizu is killed by Lord Odakuru in a deadly samurai swordfight.
False
The film uses
Omniscient narration
In the short story, the killers come to look for Ole Andreson in a small town called
Summit
Venuti argues that adaptation studies is also informed largely by the
Translation theory
'Adaptation studies' is also informed by translation theory.
True
'Unlike plagiarism or even parody, [an] adaptation usually signals its identity overtly, often for legal reasons.'
True
(Frankenstein)- The book is an epistolary novel told as a series of nested narratives.
True
- The play (Macbeth) opens with the scene of three witches plotting to meet Macbeth.
True
A dramatic play offers the possibility of emotional involvement between the audience and the actors.
True
A film adaptation recontextualizes the source material that it is adapting.
True
A loose adaptation uses the original literary text as a point of departure.
True
Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood both recontextualizes and decontextualizes William Shakespeare's Macbeth
True
An adapted film begins as a screenplay transformation of a source and becomes a film derivation from that screenplay.
True
In film, motifs are images, patterns, or ideas that are repeated throughout the film.
True
The auteur theory insists that the spectator must work at reading the film as a text.
True
Trible argues that both William Shakespeare and Akira Kurosawa share an interest in the relationship among sound, fear and the human body
True
The most notable achievements of the novel occurred in the 20thcentury.
false
Which of these sets describes best the moralist terms of criticism often used when dealing with the film adaptation of novels?
infidelity and betrayal deformation and violation vulgarization and desecration all the above***
The film and the novel (Devil in a blue dress) are a
murder-mystery drama hardboiled fiction thriller all the above***
Adaptation is
the process of modifying a text that has been created for a particular purpose, so that it is suitable for a new one. the translation from a written language to a visual language the transfer of a printed text in a literary genre to a visual text in film all the above***
Match terms: Hypertext
transforms, modifies and elaborates on an anterior text
Most historians link the beginning of modern cinema to the invention of the cinématographe and the public exhibition of films by the Lumière Bros. in December 1895 in Paris, France.
true
Match terms: Loose adaptation
uses the original text as point of departure
In a literary work, the first-person point of view is made clear through the narrator's use of this pronoun:
"I"
His idea of the caméra-stylo (or camera-pen) argues that filmmakers should use the camera like a writer uses a pen.
Alexandre Astruc
Film noir is a sub-genre of the urban crime story derived from the
American Hardboiled detective fiction of the 1930's.
The narrative structure of the novel (Android) is
An Omniscient narration
The film Shawshank Redemption is
An intermediate adaptation of the novella
This film critic (mis)translated the French critics' idea of "The politics of the authors" (la politique des auteurs) as 'auteur theory.'
Andrew Sarris
In the film The Killers, the small town of Summit in the short story is renamed
Brentwood
Which of these is not a strategy for expanding the short story into a feature film?
Experimentation strategy
A 'third-person narration' is a good example of 'restricted narration'.
False
A film is a performance by live actors before a live and present audience.
False
A film performance can be shown repeatedly, and each performance will be different.
False
A macrocosmic adaptation analysis focuses mainly on a small part of the literary text and the corresponding part of the film.
False
According to Robert Stam, filmic adaptations are hypotexts derived from preexisting hypertexts
False
According to Robert Stam, the literary text is not an open text, but a closed structure.
False
According to your e-reading, the film The Killers illustrates strongly the interweaving strategy of adapting a short story into a feature film.
False
As a collaborative endeavor, filmmaking is a less technologically advanced industry than publishing.
False
As an intertextual dialogism, adaptation participates in a single intertextuality.
False
Both the novel and the film (Devil in a blue dress) are texts that were created in the 1980s.
False
Both the novel and the film begin with Easy Rawlins working as a renowned private detective in Los Angeles.
False
Both the novel and the film tell the story of the struggle for the filmic adaptation of Homer's Iliad.
False
Both the novella and the film open with the trial of Andy Dufresne for killing his wife and her lover.
False
Ernest Hemingway' The Killers tells the story of the actual murder of Ole Andreson by two gunmen in a small town.
False
For Genette, Hypertextuality refers to the relation between one text known as the hypotext to an anterior text known as the hypertext.
False
For Lawrence Venuti, in adaptation studies informed by the discourse of fidelity, the film is compared directly to the literary source and a version of it mediated by an interpretation.
False
For the advocates of auteur theory, the screenwriter is the author of a film.
False
In Shelley's novel Frankenstein, the creature kills his creator Victor Frankenstein at the end of the novel.
False
In a 'narrative', the story is the 'how' and discourse the 'what.'
False
In film adaptation, the shift from a single track to a multitrack medium explains the likelihood of literal fidelity.
False
In terms of audience expectation, an essential difference between film and drama has to do with dialogue.
False
In the book (Devil in a blue dress), Albright and Easy will meet again at the Malibu pier, whereas and in the movie they meet again at the Santa Monica pier.
False
In the film, Henri Frankenstein leaves home at seventeen to attend university at the Sorbonne in Paris, France.
False
In the film, the young career criminal Tommy William is transferred to another prison.
False
In the novel (Androids sleep), owning a real animal becomes a death sentence for the owner.
False
In the novel (Contempt), the wife is obsessed and madly in love with her husband.
False
In the novel, gangster DeWitt Albright works for mayoral candidate Matthew Teran, whereas in the film he works for investment banker Todd Carter.
False
In the novella (Shawshank), Norton the warden commits suicide after Andy's escape.
False
In the play Macbeth, lightning and thunder signal Duncan's arrival at Macbeth's castle.
False
Kurosawa's Throne of Blood adapts Shakespeare Macbeth by using word for word the English writer's dialogue.
False
Lady Asaji gives birth to a healthy baby girl to be the heir of Washizu.
False
Lightning and thunder signal Duncan's arrival at Macbeth's castle.
False
Like play scripts, film scripts are regularly published and read by a large number of readers.
False
Macbeth is killed and beheaded 'on-stage' by King Duncan.
False
Mad scienrist Henry Frankenstein is killed by the monster he created in James Wahl's film.
False
Many critics argue that fidelity to a text is a surefire way to make a good film adaptation.
False
Postmodernism fully agrees with the elitist foundations and totalizing theories of modernism.
False
Public enthusiasm and an emerging commercial industry failed to turn film into a narrative medium.
False
Robert Stam argues that, as an intertextual dialogism, adaptation participates in a single intertextuality only, a literary one.
False
Settings and characters are usually described at length in a short story.
False
Settings and characters are usually described at length in short stories.
False
Stage performance remains the same from one performance to another.
False
Technological reproduction is more dependent of the original than is manual reproduction.
False
The 1931 film Frankenstein is a very close and literal translation or adaptation of the 1818 novel Frankenstein.
False
The crucial difference between drama or play and fiction or novel, is that fiction is meant to be performed while is drama is intended to be read.
False
The film (Contempt) ends with the death in a car crash of screenwriter Paul Javal and his wife Camille. .
False
The film (Shawshank) ends with Andy and Red reunited on a beach in California
False
The film The Shawshank Redemption is a loose adaptation of the novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.
False
The film performance can be shown repeatedly, and each performance will be different.
False
The interpretive force of a translation does not decontextualize or recontextualize the original text.
False
The novella and the film (Shawshank) use a first-person point-of-view narration by Andy Dufresne.
False
The play is set in 13th century Ireland. (Macbeth)
False
The play opens with the scene of Duncan and Macduff plotting to kill Macbeth.
False
The printed text is a multi-track medium whereas film is a single-track medium.
False
The short story is a standard, conventional crime fiction story.
False
The story of the novella (Shawshank) is introduced and narrated by Andy Dufresne.
False
The theme of the short story "The Killers" is a variation on the theme of 'cruelty under pressure'.
False
The theme of the short story The Killers is a variation on one of the author's favorite, 'cruelty under pressure.'
False
Victor Frankenstein is horrified by the appearance of his creature, but he never abandons him.
False
Victor Frankenstein leaves home at seventeen to attend Sorbonne University in Paris, France.
False
When used in film, novelist techniques such as a stream of consciousness style, are very popular with audiences.
False
When used in film, the novelist technique of stream of consciousness is very popular with mass audiences.
False
When we are reading a novel, we do not fashion our own imaginary mise-en-scène of the novel in our minds.
False
The Killers uses the visual style and narrative structure of this film genre
Film Noir
The film uses the visual style and narrative structure of this film genre.
Film Noir
The novel and film start with war veteran Easy Rawlins hired by
Gangster Dewitt Albright
He was the early filmmaker credited for introducing a storytelling dimension to film between 1895 and 1900
George Melies
In the film (Shawshank), the inmates watch this film in the prison theater.
Gilda
In the film (The Killers), Ole Andersen aka "Swede" is renamed
Pete Lund aka Swede
These 19th century technological inventions are the main focus of Walter Benjamin's discussion of "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility".
Photography and Film
This dramatist was the first to argue that the performance of the film actor was a mechanized performance.
Pirandello
In the novel (Andriod sleep), Bounty hunter Rick Deckard gets romantically involved with this android who thinks and acts as if she was a real human.
Rachel
In the film, Norton finds out about Andy's escape by tearing down a giant poster of this star
Raquel Welch
Which of these ways of presenting the world brought literature and cinema together in the 19thcentury?
Realism and melodrama
- The novel (Frankenstein) opens and closes with letters written by
Robert Walton
The novel (frankenstein) opens and closes with letters written by
Robert Walton
In the novel (Frankenstein), narration shifts between
Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the Monster
In the novel(Frankenstein), the narration shifts between
Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the Monster
Stylistically, film noir combines all the following, except,
Russian formalist montage
The story of the novel (Android sleep) is set mostly in
San Francisco, 2021
As a type of translation, adaptation decontextualizes and recontextualizes the original text.
True
As commercial propositions, adaptations can be informed by a re-reading and recycling of existing stories.
True
At the end of the novel, the wife returns in the form of a ghostly apparition to the husband.
True
Both film and drama offer a communal experience that intensifies the individual one.
True
Both the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and the film Blade Runner are dystopian post-apocalyptic texts.
True
Daphne Monet's brother Frank Green ends up murdered in the novel; he lives and ends up going away with his sister in the film.
True
Every text exists within a matrix of intertextual reference, transformation and recycling.
True
For Genette, hypertextuality refers to the relation between one text known as the hypertext to an anterior text known as the hypotext.
True
For Peter Wollen, auteur theory requires active interpretation of themes and motifs across a body of work.
True
For the sake of production, a screenplay must organize and telegraph audiovisual codes to directors, actors and technicians.
True
For theorist André Bazin, 'faithfulness to a form, literary or otherwise, is illusory'
True
For theorist André Bazin, 'faithfulness to a form, literary or otherwise, is illusory.
True
For theorist Robert Stam, adaptation participates in a double intertextuality, one literary and the other cinematic.
True
In a 'narrative', the story is the 'what' and discourse the 'how
True
In a 'narrative', the story is the 'what' and discourse the 'how.
True
In both literature and film , 'composition' comprises a series of changing images.
True
In both the play and film(Macbeth & Throne of Blood), the wives persuade their husbands to murder their sovereigns, King Duncan and Lord Tsuzuki, respectively.
True
In both the play and film, the wives persuade their husbands to murder their sovereigns, King Duncan and Lord Tsuzaki, respectively.
True
In film or literature, a narrative is a series of events that are meaningfully connected in a temporal and spatial way.
True
In film, a 'shot' is a single continuous run of the camera that records an uninterrupted action.
True
In film, a wipe suggests a close narrative and/or cinematic connection between two scenes or two shots.
True
In film, motifs are images, patterns, or ideas that are repeated throughout the text.
True
In her article "When Every Noise Appalls Me," Trible argues that the 'second structural sound pattern in William Shakespeare's Macbeth is the alarum.
True
In literature and film, 'genre' refers to a group of texts that have similar content and form, subject matter and effect on the audience.
True
In the novel (Androids sleep), humans who can't move to the 'colonies' are known as 'chickenheads'.
True
In the novel (Contempt), director Rheingold wants to make a psychological modern drama about Ulysses and Penelope's marriage in collapse.
True
In the novel (Devil in a blue dress), Easy's violent friend Mouse knows Daphne Monet whose real name is Ruby Hanks.
True
In the novel, Daphne Monet is the character who kills pedophile Matthew Teran.
True
In the novel, Victor Frankenstein and Robert Walton's quests are initiated by a thirst for knowledge.
True
In the novel, Victor Frankenstein is horrified by the appearance of his creature and abandons 'him'.
True
In the novella, Norton finds out about Andy's escape by tearing down a giant poster of Linda Ronstadt.
True
Intertextuality helps us transcend the logical impasse of the notion of 'fidelity' in adaptation.
True
James Whales' 1931 film Frankenstein is a loose adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel.
True
Justine Moritz is sentenced to death for the murder of William Frankenstein.
True
Like with movies, 'a complex literary economy governs the production and dissemination of books from their earliest phases.'
True
Linda Hutcheon claims that adaptations of books are often considered educationally important for children.
True
Macbeth is killed and beheaded 'on a battlefield
True
Macbeth is killed and beheaded 'on a battlefield by Macduff.
True
Mise-en-scène refers to all the elements placed before the camera.
True
Modernist literary texts demand rigorous attention from readers.
True
Most historians link the beginning of modern cinema to the invention of the cinématographe by the Lumière Brothers.
True
Postmodernism brought a new perspective on the relation between the real and the image, the present and past.
True
Postmodernist films are marked by the prevalence of the "nostalgia mode" and 'superficial reproduction' or 're-styling'.
True
Public enthusiasm and an emerging commercial industry turned film into a narrative medium.
True
Red "Redding" is the first-person narrator of the story in the novella and the film (Shawshank).
True
The ''creature' takes a lethal revenge on Victor Frankenstein by killing his relatives and friends in the novel.
True
The Monster takes a lethal revenge on Victor Frankenstein by killing his relatives and friends.
True
The book-screen adaptation economy is connected by the commercial and cultural flow of capital.
True
The cult value of the image finds its last refuge in the cult of remembrance of dead or absent loved ones.
True
The ending of the short story The Killers makes it a conscious parody of the formulaic crime story.
True
The film simplifies the elaborate narrative of the novel by changing characters' motivations.
True
The geographical and physical details in both literature and film were affected by the new realism of photography.
True
The geographical and physical details in both literature and film were greatly affected by the new realism of photography
True
The incomplete actions of the short story lead to an open ending with unresolved narrative tension.
True
The language of the literary text is unfixed and unspecified, whereas the language of film is fixed and specified.
True
The narrator of the short story (The Killers) reports only how characters look, and what they say and do.
True
The narrator of the short story reports only how characters look, and what they say and do.
True
The novel (Frankenstein) is an epistolary novel told as a series of nested narratives.
True
The open ending of the short story (The Killers) makes it a conscious parody of the formulaic crime story.
True
The opening scene (The killers) of the film is entirely like the opening scene of the short story.
True
The playwright is able to command our undivided attention in a way the fiction writer cannot.
True
The postmodern historical novel and film engage in a critical and parodic dialogue with the past to produce more than a facile imitation or pastiche of it.
True
The printed text is a single-track medium, whereas film is a multi-track medium.
True
The reception of dramatic play and film involves a social or 'collective public experience'.
True
The story of the film (Bladerunner) is set in 2019 in Los Angeles, California.
True
The verbal language of the literary text is unfixed and unspecified, the film's pictorial language is fixed and specified.
True
Through its chorus, its circularity and Buddhist aesthetics, Throne of Blood is an open text.
True
Underneath the narrative of the novel Contempt is the husband's psychological state of insecurity.
True
Victor Frankenstein and Robert Walton's quests are initiated by a thirst for knowledge.
True
Walter Benjamin argues that 'the technology of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the sphere of tradition'.
True
Walter Benjamin argues that the unique value of the 'authentic' work of art always has its basis in ritual.
True
When adapting a short story, the filmmaker must add or expand narrative elements to lengthen the story to fit the running time of the feature film.
True
In the film, Daphne Monet is the femme fatale and tragic mulatto of the story.
Trur
In the film (Bladerunner), the robotic syndicate is known as
Tyrell Corporation
The film (Frankenstein) was a 1930s 'monster movie' production of this Hollywood studio.
Universal
He argues that the unique value of the 'authentic' work of art always has its basis in ritual.
Walter Benjamin
The narration in the short story The Killers uses
an Omniscient narrator
According to Bazin, the most notable achievements of the novel occurred in the 20th century.
False
An intermediate adaptation neither conforms exactly nor departs entirely from the original text.
True
André Bazin argues that the idolatry of form in literature was firmly established in the 19th century.
True
A microcosmic adaptation analysis aims to convey a more complete relationship between the whole literary text and the whole film.
False
A tilt shot involves the camera moving left or right, scanning the scene horizontally.
False
William Shakespeare's play Macbeth is set in
11th century Scotland
The story of Macbeth is based on a historical period of turmoil, treachery and succession battles in
11th century Scotland
The events of the short story The Killers take place in the
1920's
In the novella, Andy Dufresne came to Shawshank in
1948
In the novella (ShawShank), when Andy Dufresne came to Shawshank, he was
30 years old
In the novella, Andy Dufresne came to Shawshank when he was
30 years old
In the film, the Nexus 6 androids have a lifespan of only
4 years
In both the novel and the film (Contempt), the director is
A German Filmmaker
The novel (Contempt) is
A first person point of view narrative
The narrative structure of both the film and novel uses
A first-person narration
Which of the following is not a standard character in film noir?
A gunslinger roaming the streets of a small rural town
Kurosawa's Throne of Blood is
A loose adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth
In the film, Andy Dufresne escapes from Shawshank with the help of
A movie poster and a storm
One of the first filmmakers to free the cinematic image from its theatrical position as a stationary point of vie
D.W. Griffith
To determine the form that the 'final cut' takes, the film editor works in close alliance with the
Director
The "interweaving strategy" of adaptation includes all the following, except,
Drop most of the narrative elements of the short story
In the article "When Every Noise Appalls Me: . . .," Evelyn Tribble argues that the 'structuring sound patterns' of Shakespeare's play include all the following, except
Drum and Flute
In her article, Tribble argues that the 'structuring sound patterns' of Shakespeare's play include all the following, except
Drum and flute
Venuti argues the importance of this theoretical concept as an essential category for studying adaptation
Interpretant
Which characters appear in the novel, but are dropped in the film?
Iran Deckard and Wilbur Mercer
In the novella, Warden Norton finds out about Andy's escape through a poster of this star
Linda Ronstadt
In both the novel and film (Devil in a blue dress), the story is set in
Los Angeles in the year 1948.
He is the nobleman who kills and beheads Macbeth.
Macduff
This mystical organization is a major religion in the novel (Android)
Mercerism
Walter Benjamin argues that in film, the 'work of art' is produced only by means of
Montage (or editing)
In film or literature, a restricted narration includes all the following, except,
NOT multiple point-of-view narration
The novel (Frankenstein) is a
NOT science fiction only
In both the novel and film (Android & Bladerunner), the advanced and highly intelligent androids are known as
Nexus 6 model
Kurosawa transposed Shakespeare's play by using the conventions of this specific Japanese theatrical tradition:
Noh Theater
Kurosawa transposes Shakespeare's play by using the conventions of this specific Japanese theatrical tradition
Noh Theater
Along with the novel and the drama, this literary form provided classical models upon which the early film could draw.
Short Story
Which of these central elements to both film and drama is the focus of the article "When Every Noise Appalls Me"?
Sound
In both the novella and film (Shawshank), the gang of inmates who prey sexually on the weaker prisoners is known as
The Sisters
The gang of inmates who prey sexually on the weaker prisoners is known as
The Sisters
In the novel (Contempt), the husband Ricardo Molteni begins his story of marital troubles by describing
The incident when producer Batista gives Emilia a ride in his car.
Unlike the screenwriter, the playwright generally relies on only one of the following points-of-view.
The objective, dramatic point-of-view
In Throne of Blood, images of conflict, oppression and claustrophobia are rendered through all the following, except
The use of open clear landscapes and plains
In Throne of Blood, images of conflict, oppression and claustrophobia are rendered through all the following, except
The use of open clear open landscapes and plains
Which of the following describes best the narrative structure of the film The Killers?
Third person narration
Film historians argue that the first motion-picture system was invented in the laboratory of this industrialist inventor and entrepreneur.
Thomas Alva Edision
A macrocosmic adaptation analysis aims to convey a more complete relationship between the whole literary text and the whole film.
True
A microcosmic adaptation analysis focuses mainly on a small part of the literary text and the corresponding part of the film.
True
A stage performance changes from one performance to another.
True
According to Walter Benjamin, 'human perception is conditioned not only by nature but by history' as well.
True
According to your reading, the film illustrates the concentration strategy of adapting a short story into a feature film.
True
According to your reading, the short story tells the story of the attempted murder of Ole Anderson by two gunmen in a small town.
True
Adaptation critics comparative ignorance of book industry dynamics perpetuated a distorted understanding of adaptation.
True
Adapting existing literary works gave early cinema a new, respectable cultural position.
True
Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood is
a Loose adaptation
Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood is
a loose adaptation
The overall film adaptation (The Killers) is
a loose adaptation
According to Venuti, in film adaptation Formal Interpretants are
a relational equivalence of structural correspondence between the source material and the film.
The relationship between literary culture and a culture of images raises questions about which of these binaries?
active reading versus passive fascination
Which of these describes best the "point of departure strategy"?
add an invented narrative with new elements drop most of the elements of narrative from the short story keep possibly the plot premise, a character's name, or just the title all the above***
Which of the following best describes the narrative structure of the film (The Killers)?
an omniscient point of view narration
Robert Stam maintains that a literary text is
an open source
Which of these was the reason for adaptation in cinema in the early 19th century?
borrow literary prestige for the new art form of cinema meet the growing demand for narrative films support the commercial incentive for the new medium of cinema all the above***
The similarities between film and drama include all the following, except
both use a performance by live actors before live audience
The "concentration strategy" includes all the following, except
disperse the elements of the story throughout the film
Match terms: Intermediate adaptation
does not conform or depart entirely from original text
Which of the following source-language contexts are lost during a translation as an interpretation?
intra-textual context inter-textual context reception context all the above****
A macrocosmic adaptation analysis will involve all the following, except
investigating in detail a small part of the literary text and the corresponding part of the film
Match terms: Close adaptation
is as faithful as possible to original text
In early cinema, many prominent screenwriters of the studio came from
journalism short story writing novel writing and playwriting all the above***
The techniques of 'continuity editing' include all the following, except,
jump cut
- Which of these describes best the "point of departure strategy"?
keep possibly the plot premise, a character's name, or just the title
The strategies used to transpose a story from stage to film include all the following, except
keeping the act division of the play
The film adaptation The Killers is a
loose adaptation of the short story
In a close adaptation
most of the narrative elements in the literary text are kept in the film few elements are dropped, not many elements are added. all the above***
In terms of audience expectation, an essential difference between drama and movie has to do with
movement
In terms of audience expectation, an essential difference between film and drama has to do with
movement
In film, the selection and arrangement of events is known as the
plot
Which of these ways of presenting the world brought literature and cinema together in the 19th century?
realism and melodrama
Match terms: Hypotext
refers to the original text transformed by the adaptation
Which of these best describes the features of 'genre' as a 'commercial formula'?
seamless combination of content and form. standardization and repetition for mass audience appeal conscious reference to past conventions by drawing on tradition all the above.***
The creature or Monster tells of his first experiences of a 'new life' by describing
sights and sounds day and night food and drink all the above****
Match terms: Intertextuality
suggests that texts refer to or cite other texts
Which of these highlights best the technical problems of film adaptation of modernist fiction?
the commercial pressure on mainstream cinema to produce films that do not challenge audiences modernist fiction's reliance on ambiguous story, complex characters and fragmented perceptions. the modernist disdain of bourgeois culture and its liberal ideology usually upheld by commercial film. all the above***
Which of these made literature a source of ready-made materials that could be transposed to film?
the demand for movies increased exponentially audiences became more sophisticated cinema of narration replaced cinema of attractions all the above***
- Which of these underscores best the radical changes made in the film (Shawshank)?
the ethnicity of 'Red' the suicide of Norton the killing of Tommy Williams all the above***
Which of these describes best the reasons for disregarding the screenplay in adaptation study?
the multiple revisions a script undergoes during development Hollywood's traditional low regard for the screenwriter generally the elitist resistance to any sort of transposition of esteemed canonical literature all the above***