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Practice Writing: Summarize Written Text
ID: #5630
Cinema 2 R1
Instructions
Read the passage below and summarize it using one sentence. Type your response in the box at the bottom of the screen. You have 10 minutes to finish this task. Your response will be judged on the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the key points in the passage.
Given its long history both in Hollywood and elsewhere, it is surprising that such a prevalent and central presence in commercial cinema as the sequel has been so perpetually overlooked. This is not to say that the films themselves have been ignored - as the voluminous material on Aliens (James Cameron, 1986) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991), as well as The Matrix (Andy and Lana Wachowski, 1999-2003) and The Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson, 2001-2003) trilogies attests - but the bulk of this criticism takes little interest in their status as sequels, choosing instead to focus on their place within a director's body of work, their representations of gender and so on.
In the 1990s the sequel became more visible in relation to debates around what constituted the 'new' or 'post-classical' Hollywood, with scholars such as Thomas Schatz ('The New Hollywood' in Film Theory Goes to the Movies, Routledge, 1993) and Timothy Corrigan (A Cinema Without Walls, Rutgers University Press, 1991) invoking the form as symptomatic of shifts within that industry. In this respect, academics have been in step with popular criticism of the sequel, which has been widespread and persistent since the late 1970s and has manifested itself in writings by Vincent Canby (1977), Peter Rainer (1983), Richard Corliss (1990, 1992) and J. Hoberman, whose oft-quoted review of Hollywood from 1975 to 1985 decried the bout of 'sequelitis' (1985:38) that had apparently afflicted that decade.
In the 1990s the sequel became more visible in relation to debates around what constituted the 'new' or 'post-classical' Hollywood, with scholars such as Thomas Schatz ('The New Hollywood' in Film Theory Goes to the Movies, Routledge, 1993) and Timothy Corrigan (A Cinema Without Walls, Rutgers University Press, 1991) invoking the form as symptomatic of shifts within that industry. In this respect, academics have been in step with popular criticism of the sequel, which has been widespread and persistent since the late 1970s and has manifested itself in writings by Vincent Canby (1977), Peter Rainer (1983), Richard Corliss (1990, 1992) and J. Hoberman, whose oft-quoted review of Hollywood from 1975 to 1985 decried the bout of 'sequelitis' (1985:38) that had apparently afflicted that decade.
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Sample Answer 1
Given its long history both in Hollywood and elsewhere, it is astonishing that such a prevalent and central presence in commercial cinema as the sequel has been so perpetually overlooked, and in the 1990s the sequel became more visible in relation to debates around what constituted the new or post-classical Hollywood, with scholars such as Thomas Schatz and Timothy Corrigan invoking the form as symptomatic of shifts within that industry.
Sample Answer 2
Despite sequels being a common phenomenon, their status as sequels has received little attention in the academic literature, though in the 1990s they were mentioned in discussions about change in Hollywood; this point was also made by critics in the popular press though at a somewhat earlier time.
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Given its long history both in Hollywood and elsewhere, it is
surprisingastonishing that such a prevalent and central presence in commercial cinema as the sequel has been so perpetually overlooked, and in the 1990s the sequel became more visible in relation to debates around what constituted the 'new' or 'post-classical' Hollywood, with scholars such as Thomas Schatz('The New Hollywood' in Film Theory Goes to the Movies, Routledge, 1993)and Timothy Corrigan(A Cinema Without Walls, Rutgers University Press, 1991)invoking the form as symptomatic of shifts within that industry. -> Both lines talking about sequel
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