A stimulating collection of essays analysing adaptations of this most cinematic of novelists.

Introduction T. R. Wright; 1. Hardy as a cinematic novelist: three aspects of narrative technique T. R. Wright; 2. From painting to cinema: visual elements in Hardy's fiction Roger Webster; 3. Wessex on film Simon Gatrell; 4. The silent era: Thomas Hardy goes way down east Peter Widdowson; 5. Screening the short stories: from the 1950s to the 1990s Roy Pierce-Jones; 6. All fall down: Hardy's heroes on the 1990s cinema screen Judith Mitchell; 7. Far from the Madding Crowd in the cinema: the problem of textual fidelity Keith Wilson; 8. Staging the Native: aspects of screening The Return of the Native Rosemarie Morgan; 9. Screening the flashback: three ways of opening The Mayor of Casterbridge Philip Allingham; 10. The Woodlanders: the conflicting visions of Phil Agland and Thomas Hardy Dale Kramer; 11. Dissonance, simulacra and the grain of the voice in Roman Polanski's Tess of the d'Urbervilles John Paul Riquelme; 12. Romancing the text: genre, indeterminacy and televising Tess of the d'Urbervilles Richard Nemesvari; 13. Adapting Hardy's Jude the Obscure for the screen: a study in contrasts Robert Schweik; Filmography; Bibliography; Index.