A Study of Psychological Realism in Bogdanovich’s Cinematic Adaptation of Daisy Miller
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This paper aims at studying the cinematic adaptation of psychological realism deployed in Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller (1974). In this study, beside the psychology of characters, the style and aesthetics in this film as fine art are analyzed and the central female character’s standing for herself and her identity have also been discussed in the light of psychological realism. How scriptwriter (s) in this particular case have dealt with dramaturgical matters through their transforming the original story has also been included as part of discussion.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18415/ijmmu.v12i1.6555
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