Round 2: Tossup 3

Jean-Claude Carrière (“car-YAIR”) and this theorist bemoan an online poll declaring Tarantino the greatest director in their book This is Not the End of the Book. An essay by this theorist cites The Count of Monte Cristo, “one of the most badly written novels” ever, as a literary predecessor of the “intertextual archetypes” that made Casablanca a cult film. In the 1960s, this theorist conducted a series of debates on “iconism” with colleagues (15[1])Christian Metz (“mess”), Roland Barthes (“bart”), and Pier Paolo Pasolini. This theorist cameoed as himself in the book signing scene in La (*) Notte (“NOH-tay”). This theorist noted that audiences don’t consider L’Avventura pornographic, despite it wasting a lot of their time, in an essay from the collection How To Travel with a Salmon. (10[4])In a (10[1])Guardian (10[1])interview, (10[1])this author (10[1])compared one of his novels to a “club sandwich” when discussing its 1986 adaptation starring Christian Slater and Sean Connery as a novice and friar. (10[1])For 10 points, what pioneer of film semiotics wrote The Name of the Rose? ■END■

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