Digitising Dinosaurs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5904235 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Morgan Richards (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-79 |
| Publication date | 2001-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media International Australia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1329-878X • E-ISSN: 2200-467X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1329878x0110000108 |
| OpenAlex | W4214716839 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
This article reflects on the intersection of science, art and technology in the construction of the televisual dinosaur. In particular, it is concerned with the class of digital dinosaurs hatched in Jurassic Park (1993) and The Lost World (1997), powered by the latest digital technologies for the reinscription of the filmic and televisual image, and recently grafted to that most domestic of media genres, the animal documentary. Focusing on the BBC television series Walking with Dinosaurs (1999), the digital dinosaur is proposed as an object of mimetic desire in which narratives of intimacy and otherness, resurrection and loss, anthropomorphism and monstrosity are played out. In analysing exactly how the mimetic is achieved, an alternative balance between science and art is proposed, one that foregrounds the complexities and paradoxes of a television program that offers realistic depictions of things we know don't exist in the familiar guise of an animal documentary
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Cartography · Geography · Literature · Narrative · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · History · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |