CTVA 309 Final questions and
answers already passed
True or False: For the sake of production, a screenplay must organize and telegraph audiovisual
codes to directors, actors and technicians. - correct answer ✔✔True
True or False: For the advocates of auteur theory, the screenwriter is the author of the film -
correct answer ✔✔False
True or False: Modernist literary texts demand rigorous attention from readers. - correct answer
✔✔True
True or False: The auteur theory insists that the spectator must work at reading the film as a
text - correct answer ✔✔True
True or False: An adapted film begins as a screenplay transformation of a source and becomes a
film derivation from that screenplay. - correct answer ✔✔True
True or False: For Peter Wollen, auteur theory requires active interpretation of themes and
motifs across a body of work. - correct answer ✔✔True
True or False: Underneath the narrative of the novel Contempt is the husband's psychological
state of insecurity. - correct answer ✔✔True
True or False: In the novel(Contempt), the wife is obsessed and madly in love with her husband.
- correct answer ✔✔False
, True or False: At the end of the novel(Contempt), the wife returns in the form of a ghostly
apparition to the husband. - correct answer ✔✔True
True or False: In the novel(Contempt), director Rheingold wants to make a psychological
modern drama about Ulysses and Penelope's marriage in collapse. - correct answer ✔✔True
Which of these describes best the reasons for disregarding the screenplay in adaptation study? -
correct answer ✔✔The multiple revisions a script undergoes during development.
Hollywood's traditional low regard for the screenwriter generally.
The elitist resistance to any sort of transportation of esteemed canonical literature.
This film critic (mis)translated the French critics' polemical idea of "The politics of the authors"
(la politique des auteurs) as 'auteur theory.' - correct answer ✔✔Andrew Sarris
His idea of the caméra-stylo (or camera-pen) argues that filmmakers should use the camera like
a writer uses a pen. - correct answer ✔✔Alexandre Astruc
Which of these highlights best the technical problems of film adaptation of modernist fiction? -
correct answer ✔✔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.
answers already passed
True or False: For the sake of production, a screenplay must organize and telegraph audiovisual
codes to directors, actors and technicians. - correct answer ✔✔True
True or False: For the advocates of auteur theory, the screenwriter is the author of the film -
correct answer ✔✔False
True or False: Modernist literary texts demand rigorous attention from readers. - correct answer
✔✔True
True or False: The auteur theory insists that the spectator must work at reading the film as a
text - correct answer ✔✔True
True or False: An adapted film begins as a screenplay transformation of a source and becomes a
film derivation from that screenplay. - correct answer ✔✔True
True or False: For Peter Wollen, auteur theory requires active interpretation of themes and
motifs across a body of work. - correct answer ✔✔True
True or False: Underneath the narrative of the novel Contempt is the husband's psychological
state of insecurity. - correct answer ✔✔True
True or False: In the novel(Contempt), the wife is obsessed and madly in love with her husband.
- correct answer ✔✔False
, True or False: At the end of the novel(Contempt), the wife returns in the form of a ghostly
apparition to the husband. - correct answer ✔✔True
True or False: In the novel(Contempt), director Rheingold wants to make a psychological
modern drama about Ulysses and Penelope's marriage in collapse. - correct answer ✔✔True
Which of these describes best the reasons for disregarding the screenplay in adaptation study? -
correct answer ✔✔The multiple revisions a script undergoes during development.
Hollywood's traditional low regard for the screenwriter generally.
The elitist resistance to any sort of transportation of esteemed canonical literature.
This film critic (mis)translated the French critics' polemical idea of "The politics of the authors"
(la politique des auteurs) as 'auteur theory.' - correct answer ✔✔Andrew Sarris
His idea of the caméra-stylo (or camera-pen) argues that filmmakers should use the camera like
a writer uses a pen. - correct answer ✔✔Alexandre Astruc
Which of these highlights best the technical problems of film adaptation of modernist fiction? -
correct answer ✔✔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.
