The phantom referent : perceptual realism in cinema

• Main Author: Boh, Aloysius Chee Kai
• Other Authors: Stephen Teo Kian Teck
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Visual communication; DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Visual literacy; DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Film::Criticism; DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Film::Digital; DRNTU::Humanities::Philosophy; DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Photography; DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Film; DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Painting; DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Affection and emotion; DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media::Broadcasting::Motion pictures and films::Film theory and criticism; DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media::Media effects
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66858
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We live in an age where photorealistic objects in films do not necessarily have physical referents — look no further than the dinosaurs in Jurassic World (2015), and the wormhole in Interstellar (2014). Every living person has neither seen dinosaurs in the flesh, nor an actual wormhole. Yet when pe...