Thus, the plot of both Webber’s film and Chevalier’s novel is all about Chevalier’s own interpretation of the famous mysterious painting. The painting features a mysterious girl with a turban and a pearl earring but her identity has not yet been determined (Wikipedia). The film and novel both give fictional accounts of the girl depicted in a 17th –century painting of the same title by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer more exactly, as known well, the novel came out first then the film was made based on it. There are numerous great examples of intertextuality Peter Webber’s film (2003) and Tracy Chevalier’s novel (1999) of the same name, Girl with a Pearl Earring, would be definitely some of them. One of the primary features of postmodernism in aesthetic production including artworks, films, music, and, literature is the use of intertextuality.
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