Psychological Realism in Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
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This article studies Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady (1996) from the perspective of psychological realism and analyzes this cinematic adaptation of The Portrait of a Lady via semiotics, images and symbols deployed in the light of psychological realism. Henry James’s novel The Portrait of a Lady has variously been adapted into several films. However, Campion’s film seeks to question rather than reproduce the stereotypes. This is achieved by shifting attention away from the narrative and focusing instead on the characters, chiefly the focal character, and their reactions.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18415/ijmmu.v12i7.6936
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