Footnote #25 - Photorealism

The Fantasy/Animation podcast takes listeners on a journey through the intersection between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Available via Apple Podcasts, Spotify and many of your favourite podcast hosting platforms!

Fresh from their discussion of hyper-realism in the previous Footnote episode, Chris and Alex discuss ‘photorealism’ in this latest instalment - a term that denotes the aesthetic mimicking of lens-based media to create the appearance of a world as viewed through a camera. Listen as they discuss photorealism’s relationship to the animated illusion of pro-filmic activity; links with hyper-realism as a broader aesthetic category of representation; the role of computer-generated imagery (CGI) in crafting and re-conjuring indexical signs (lens flare; depth-of-field); and how the simulation of analogue by other means links to processes of ‘remediation.’

**Fantasy/Animation theme tune composed by Francisca Araujo**

Suggested Readings

  • Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. 2000. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press.

  • Brown, William. 2013. Supercinema: Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age. New York: Bergahn.

  • Darley, Andrew. 2000. Visual Digital Culture: Surface Play and Spectacle in New Media Genres. London and New York: Routledge.

  • Purse, Lisa. 2013. Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

FOOTNOTE PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantAESTHETICS, TECHNOLOGY, DIGITAL, REALISM, REPRESENTATIONComment