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Hardcover | 5 January 2006

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The novels of Thomas Hardy have often been regarded as cinematic in their scope and power, and they have inspired some of the most absorbing adaptations of fiction for the big screen. This collection of essays by prominent international Hardy scholars explores both successful and unsuccessful attempts to transfer Hardy's novels to the screen. It provides a fascinating illustrated history of the interpretation and recreation of Hardy's work, from the silent era to television. The essays highlight the challenging nature of Hardy's work, which finds its most powerful reflection in films by controversial directors such as Roman Polanski and Michael Winterbottom. Adaptations on screen have revived Hardy's reputation for new generations of readers, and have reinforced the continuing relevance of his works. This collection offers a stimulating starting-point both for the study of Hardy's novels as films, and of the ways in which cinema and television adaptations illuminate the novels.

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'This collection achieves its aim - providing 'a fascinating history of reception, interpretation and recreation.' Times Literary Supplement

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Non-Fiction Arts & Entertainment Film, TV & Radio Specific Films Film Theory & Criticism Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current

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Introduction
Hardy as a cinematic novelist: three aspects of narrative technique
From painting to cinema: visual elements in Hardy's fiction
Wessex on film
The silent era: Thomas Hardy goes way down east
Screening the short stories: from the 1950s to the 1990s
All fall down: Hardy's heroes on the 1990s cinema screen
Far from the Madding Crowd in the cinema: the problem of textual fidelity
Staging the Native: aspects of screening The Return of the Native
Screening the flashback: three ways of opening The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Woodlanders: the conflicting visions
Dissonance, simulacra and the grain of the voice in Roman Polanski's Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Romancing the text: genre, indeterminacy and televising Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Adapting Hardy's Jude the Obscure for the screen: a study in contrasts
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
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