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Contents List of Illustrations 9 List of Contributors 11 Acknowledgments 17 Note on References and Abbreviations 20 Introduction TERRY WRIGHT 21 1. 'Hardy as a Cinematic Novelist': Three Aspects of Narrative Technique TERRY WRIGHT 35 2. From Painting to Cinema: Visual Elements in Hardy's Fiction ROGER WEBSTER 60 3. Wessex on Film SIMON GATRELL 92 4. The Silent Era: Thomas Hardy Goes Way Down East PETER WIDDOWSON 118 5. Screening the Short Stories: From the 1950s to the 1990s ROY PIERCE-JONES 144 6. All Fall Down: Hardy's Heroes on the 1990s Cinema Screen JUDITH MITCHELL 172 7. Far From the Madding Crowd in the Cinema: The Problem of Textual Fidelity KEITH WILSON 209 8. Staging the Native: Aspects of Screening The Return of the Native ROSEMARIE MORGAN 233 9. Screening the Flashback: Three Ways of Opening The Mayor of Casterbridge PHILIP ALLINGHAM 263 10. The Woodlanders: The Conflicting Visions of Phil Agland and Thomas Hardy DALE KRAMER 294 11. Dissonance, Simulacra and the Grain of the Voice in Roman Polanski's Tess JOHN PAUL RIQUELME 320 12. Romancing the Text: Genre, Indeterminacy and Televising Tess of the d'Urbervilles RICHARD NEMESVARI 355 13. Adapting Hardy's Jude the Obscure for Screen: A Study in Contrasts ROBERT SCHWEIK 379 Filmography 406 Bibliography 420 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Film and video adaptations.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Fictional works.
Film adaptations -- History and criticism.
Wessex (England) -- In motion pictures.