Seeing Hardy
Subtitle: film and television adaptations of the fiction of Thomas Hardy
By: by Paul J. Niemeyer.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
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 bibliographical references (p. 289-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: Filming Hardy ; "Strange business" : Thomas Hardy, the cinema, and the critics ; What you see is more than what you get : the problem of adapting Hardy to film; title: Filmed Hardy ; Far from the madding crowd : how Schlesinger contained the uncontainable ; Tess by Hardy, Tess by Polanski : convergence and fullment ; Hardy's Jude the obscure and Winterbottom's Jude : coherence and codication; title: Hardy in other forms ; The lesser known Hardy adaptations : The Woodlanders, The scarlet tunic, and The claim ; "Moments of television", or, Thomas Hardy is brought to you by; title: Postscript : Hardy on the horizon; title: Appendix A: The "lost" Hardy adaptations, 1913-1953; title: Appendix B: Film adaptations of Hardy, 1967-2000; title: Appendix C: Television adaptations of Hardy's works.