Photography in Tron: visual ambiguities in filmic space

Abstract

This article intends to examine questions concerning the
visual representation in Tron (1982), of the director Steven Lisberger. The movie has image features that show the use of technologies – computer images mixed with actors photographed by the camera – that allow the construction of a new reality in the field of cinema. The paper emphasizes the importance of the set of structural elements in Tron, such as the junction of shapes and objects constructed by computer, or even real objects captured by photograph.