Hello everyone, my power just came back on from losing it again midday yesterday! Give me an hour to regroup myself, and I will be back with a Ray post! Hope everyone is safe!

Is Ray opposed to adaptation studies in general? While reading Ray, I felt like the answer to this was definitively “yes,” but upon reflection, it is more complicated than that. One could argue that he frowns upon adaptation studies because … Continue reading →

Finally, power is back on in (parts) of Lower Manhattan, so here is my extremely late blog post. Please forgive my ramblings, as living in the dark for 5 days has gone to my head! Robert B Ray’s “Film and … Continue reading →

I found it very difficult to understand many of Ray’s ideas and theories, but he does pose multiple intriguing questions about cinema.  The two questions that I want to answer are: Do popular narratives differ in some fundamental way from … Continue reading →

And I hope you all did too!  Now, on to the blog post… I’d pose the same question Ray poses on page 2: can enchantment (what I would purport to be the “crossroads of magic and positivism”) be mass produced? … Continue reading →

Now that we’re fairly removed from the criticism based on fidelity, perhaps it’s time to ask: why do we as readers/moviegoers/consumers invest so much in whether or not an adaptation is faithful? Why are we so beholden to the original? … Continue reading →

How does the mass production aspect of film help to produce a democratizing effect in the consumption of art? Narrative is not specific to one medium: “the instant accessibility of popular stories, especially the movies, depends on a signifier’s connotation … Continue reading →