Span50: Rancho Grande, Adaptation & Corrigan Chapter 2 to pg. 30

Question 1

Jeopardy: an altered or amended version of a text

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What is adaptation?

Question 2

Contemporary theories of media adaptation have moved

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away from a single stable source., beyond the unidirectional movement of literature to film., away from an identifiable author.

Question 3

Jeopardy: What did Jean Cocteau say about scope of film and passive spectators?

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Viewers must stop viewing film from the corner of their eyes, The cinema muse is too rich.

Question 4

Leo Tolstoy considered film a direct attack on the methods of literary art.

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True

Question 5

To write perceptive analyses see film as constructed form/style from many historical influences

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Corrigan says True

Question 6

Traditionally, the goal of adaptation has been

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perpetuation of the hierarchy of literary text as touchstone, replication of the source text, fidelity to the source text

Question 7

Before writing about film, one should

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consider technology and cinematic innovations employed., be aware of economic and commercial determinants., ask about one's potential interest in it.

Question 8

Jeopardy:One of the most helpful techniques in preparing to write analytically about literature

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What is scribbling?, What is underlining?, What are question marks?

Question 9

What is not an example of Golden Age Mexican Cinema?

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Flor Silvestre, Allá en el Rancho Grande

Question 10

Fernando de Fuentes

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Who is the director of Rancho Grande?

Question 11

Allá en el Rancho Grande debuted in

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1936

Question 12

Jeopardy: What is an example of an analytical question for a film essay?

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When was the film made?, Does the film resemble any foreign films I know?, Why does the film conclude on this image?

Question 13

Berger: Movies aren't just about a subject but a rendition of a subject for

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a way of seeing elements such as story & place in our lives, specific reasons & to create certain meanings

Question 14

Allá en el Rancho Grande is an example of

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Comedia ranchera

Question 15

Scene locations, dialogue, the look of characters & the storyline.

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What are essential elements of transnational adaptations?, What successful adaptations address audience sensibilities?

Question 16

Odd one out: According to Stam, several factors informed privileging of literature over film.

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iconoclasm

Question 17

Adaptation as defined by the Oxford Dictionary _________ have a plurality of meanings.

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does

Question 18

A guideline that may help initiate dialogue with a movie is

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note which elements strike you as unfamiliar and perplexing, note elements repeated to emphasize a point or perception

Question 19

Jeopardy"Cinema & lit adaptations are responsible for vulgarization & moral decline of society"

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Who is Virginia Woolf?

Question 20

Jeopardy: Star Trek

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What's a text that thrived in ways impossible in original?, What's a text that was a failed tv program?

Question 21

Corrigan says every movie has patterns of repetition contrasted with striking singular moments.

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true

Question 22

Jeopardy: A-team and X-Files.

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What are examples of unsuccessful adaptations?

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