Pseudorealism, also spelled pseudo-realism, is a term used in a variety of discourses connoting
art
Art is a diverse range of cultural activity centered around ''works'' utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience, generally through an expression of emotional power, conceptual ideas, tec ...
istic and dramatic techniques, or work of art, film and literature perceived as superficial, ''not-real'', or non-realistic.
[Eric Loren Smoodin, Ann Martin]
''Hollywood quarterly: film culture in postwar America, 1945-1957.'' Page 235.
''University of California Press.'' By definition, the term is highly subjective.
[ A Defence Of Paradise-Engineering.](_blank)
''BLTC Research'', 1998. ''Use of term: pseudo-realism.''
Synopsis
The term pseudo-realism has been used to describe a certain type of cultural commodities such as film productions and TV programmes which portray everyday life in excessively realistic detail in order to achieve greater impact on viewers.
Examples
Following the great shift towards expressionism in painting, André Bazin used the word ''pseudoreal'' in reference to mechanical means which freed the plastic arts from the drive toward 'unachievable likeness'. Meanwhile,
photorealist
Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another Medium (arts), medium. Although ...
ic CGI animation and
3D computer graphics
3D computer graphics, sometimes called Computer-generated imagery, CGI, 3D-CGI or three-dimensional Computer-generated imagery, computer graphics, are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian coor ...
used today have become indistinguishable from cine-photography. In that regard, the
special effects
Special effects (often abbreviated as F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the fictional events in a story or virtual world. ...
augmenting feature film through photographic deception of the eye have gained an entirely different dimension.
Computer generated imagery and
3D animation are used not only to bolster reality based images but also to create imaginary worlds.
Christopher Hitchens equates ''pseudo-realism'' with
Socialist realism of the Stalinist era as exposed by Orwell.
[Christopher Hitchens]
''Why Orwell Matters''. Page 93.
''Basic Books'', 2003. . Others invoke the old pseudo-real traditions of Indian film with no negative characters.
Another example of this type of art are the works of
Devajyoti Ray.
See also
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Neorealism
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Cinephilia
Cinephilia ( ; also cinemaphilia or filmophilia) is the term used to refer to a passionate interest in films, film theory, and film criticism. The term is a portmanteau of the words '' cinema'' and '' philia'', one of the four ancient Greek words ...
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Film theory
Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; and that now provides conceptual frameworks for und ...
Notes and references
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Allwords.com:a dramatic technique in which an altered view of reality is presented as being real
Devajyoti Ray, has taken the challenge of pseudo-real representation.
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