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The Novel “War and Peace” by L. Tolstoy and Its Screen Version (2016) by Tom Harper

Student: Bolshakova Anastasiia

Supervisor: Marina V. Tsvetkova

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

This paper is dedicated to a comparative analysis of Leo Tolstoy’s novel “War and peace” and its screen version (6-series sereal), made by British director Tom Harper and produced by BBC. The benchmarking study is focused on the specificity of the film-reception and the most well-known pieces of classical literature, to highlight the peculiarity of the perception the classical Russian novel abroad, in English-speaking countries. The English director understands the novel through the lens of his native culture, and that arise the interest of examining not only the cohesions between written and screened texts, but also finding all the possible cross-cultural reciprocity. All that factors let conduce the deeper understanding of artistic conceptions both of the authors.

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