Thomas Hardy on screen / edited by T.R. Wright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wright, T. R. (Terence R.), 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928--Film adaptations.

Hardy, Thomas.

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928--Fictional works.

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

Wessex (England)--In motion pictures.

Wessex (England).

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

xiv, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Contents:

'Hardy as a cinematic novelist' : three aspects of narrative technique / Terry Wright

From painting to cinema : visual elements in Hardy's fiction / Roger Webster

Wessex on film / Simon Gatrell

The silent era : Thomas Hardy goes way down east / Peter Widdowson

Screening the short stories : from the 1950s to the 1990s / Roy Pierce-Jones

All fall down : Hardy's heroes on the 1990s cinema screen / Judith Mitchell

Far from the madding crowd in the cinema : the problem of textual fidelity / Keith Wilson

Staging the Native : aspects of screening The return of the native / Rosemarie Morgan

Screening the flashback : three ways of opening The mayor of Casterbridge / Philip Allingham

The woodlanders : the conflicting visions of Phil Agland and Thomas Hardy / Dale Kramer

Dissonance, simulacra and the grain of the voice in Roman Polanski's Tess / John Paul Riquelme

Romancing the text : genre, indeterminacy and televising Tess of the D'Urbervilles / Richard Nemesvari

Adapting Hardy's Jude the obscure for screen : a study in contrasts / Robert Schweik.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-209) and index.

Includes filmography.

ISBN:

0521840813

0521600529

OCLC:

60323426

Publisher Number:

9780521840811 (hbk.)

9780521600521 (pbk.)