Pseudorealism, also spelled pseudo-realism, is a term used in a variety of discourses connoting
art
Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...
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. Although the term ca ...
ic CGI animation and
3D computer graphics
3D computer graphics, or “3D graphics,” sometimes called CGI, 3D-CGI or three-dimensional computer graphics are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian) that is stored in the computer for t ...
used today have become indistinguishable from cine-photography. In that regard, the
special effects
Special effects (often abbreviated as SFX, 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 imagined events in a story or virtual wo ...
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
Socialist realism is a style of idealized realistic art that was developed in the Soviet Union and was the official style in that country between 1932 and 1988, as well as in other socialist countries after World War II. Socialist realism is c ...
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.
Psudeorealism back in Mumbai - Hindustan Times
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See also
* Neorealism
*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 for love. ...
* Film theory
Notes and references
External links
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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