[2] 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.
[3] 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'.
In that regard, the special effects augmenting feature film through photographic deception of the eye have gained an entirely different dimension.
[4] Computer generated imagery and 3D animation are used not only to bolster reality based images but also to create imaginary worlds.
— David Surman, "CGI Animation: Pseudorealism, Perception and Possible Worlds" [4]Christopher Hitchens equates pseudo-realism with Socialist realism of the Stalinist era as exposed by Orwell.