alienation effect

It speaks for the alienated, yet flirts with the alienation effect in its music.

Brecht also used stylization through what he termed "alienation effects."

The alienation effect is used to achieve an intensified dramatic effect on the viewer.

He called this the alienation effect.

He comments upon the "alienation effect" of killing off the "apparent center of the film" with which spectators had identified.

Is this Brechtian "alienation effect," the deliberate distancing of dramatic characters from empathetic response?

Perhaps he's striving to achieve Bertolt Brecht's famous "alienation effect."

Anticipating Brecht's "alienation effect," he believed that theater was debased when acting was mistaken for real experience.

In other words, the show at the Helen Hayes Theater starts out on the wrong foot, achieving a kind of alienation effect on the audience.

Brecht's seldom workable "alienation effect" - emphasize ideology, eliminate sentiment - is particularly counterproductive and irrelevant here.

Mr. McElroen and this fine company add more layers to the alienation effect that Brecht wanted.

One of Brecht's preoccupations was with what he called the "alienation effect," the process of distancing oneself from an object to perceive it better.

Two teenagers presage a night in the hayloft with prolonged quoting of classic verse; another girl lectures her colleagues on Brecht's alienation effect.

In this particular case, the fact that the actors are not pretending to be other characters and are instead speaking straightforwardly to the audience is an alienation effect.

If Brecht is associated with the disputable alienation effect, Mr. Foreman's contribution here is affected alienation.

The word is sometimes rendered as defamiliarization effect, estrangement effect, distantiation, alienation effect, or distancing effect.

This relationship, or rather, this phenomenon, he called Verfremdungseffekt (in English, distancing or the Alienation Effect).

Seeing Mei perform especially impressed the German playwright Bertold Brecht and influenced his concept of the alienation effect.

Since Mahagonny was co-produced by Brecht, there is a prominent display of the Verfremdungseffekt, often translated as the "alienation effect".

Working on a set draped with heavy white sheets, director William Gaskill employed Brechtian alienation effects, to mixed critical reviews.

Short Description of a New Technique of Acting which Produces an Alienation Effect (written 1940; published 1951)

He was also a champion of Bertolt Brecht, both his plays and his contributions to theatre theory (especially the so-called "alienation effect" or Verfremdungseffekt).

Mr. McBurney's disciplined, formal style, which asks performers to step in and out of their human identities, is eminently suited to that famous Brechtian alienation effect.

In more recent times, it has been associated with the poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, whose Verfremdungseffekt ("alienation effect") was a potent element of his approach to theater.

Brecht's signature alienation effect was never writ as briskly or bouncily as it is in this capitalism-bashing study of thugs, whores and mercenary parents in Victorian London.