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-	{{Template}}	+	{{Template}}The '''alienation effect ''' (from the [[German language|German]] '''''Verfremdungseffekt''''') is a theatrical and cinematic device "which prevents the audience from losing itself passively and completely in the character created by the actor, and which consequently leads the audience to be a consciously critical observer."<ref>[[Bertolt Brecht|Brecht, Bertolt]], "Brecht on Theater", page 91. Hill and Wang, 1957</ref> The term was coined by [[playwright]] [[Bertolt Brecht]] to describe the aesthetics of [[epic theatre]].
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The alienation effect (from the German Verfremdungseffekt) is a theatrical and cinematic device "which prevents the audience from losing itself passively and completely in the character created by the actor, and which consequently leads the audience to be a consciously critical observer."<ref>Brecht, Bertolt, "Brecht on Theater", page 91. Hill and Wang, 1957</ref> The term was coined by playwright Bertolt Brecht to describe the aesthetics of epic theatre.