Thomas Hardy on screen
By: edited by T.R. Wright.
Contributors: Wright, T. R. 1951-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780521840811; 9780521600521
Subjects: Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Film and video adaptations.; Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Fictional works.; Film adaptations -- History and criticism.; Wessex (England) -- In motion pictures.
Notes: Includes filmography, bibliographical references, and index.
Table of contents: title: Hardy as a cinematic novelist : three aspects of narrative technique / Terry Wright; title: From painting to cinema : visual elements in Hardy's fiction / Roger Webster; title: Wessex on film / Simon Gatrell; title: The silent era : Thomas Hardy goes way down east / Peter Widdowson; title: Screening the short stories : from the 1950s to the 1990s / Roy Pierce-Jones; title: All fall down : Hardy's heroes on the 1990s cinema screen / Judith Mitchell; title: Far from the madding crowd in the cinema : the problem of textual fidelity / Keith Wilson; title: Staging The native : aspects of screening The return of the native / Rosemarie Morgan; title: Screening the flashback : three ways of opening The mayor of Casterbridge / Philip Allingham; title: The woodlanders : the conflicting visions of Phil Agland and Thomas Hardy / Dale Kramer; title: Dissonance, simulacra and the grain of the voice in Roman Polanski's Tess / John Paul Riquelme; title: Romancing the text : genre, indeterminacy and televising Tess of the D'Urbervilles / Richard Nemesvari; title: Adapting Hardy's Jude the obscure for screen : a study in contrasts / Robert Schweik.