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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***