Distancing effect
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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." The term was coined by playwright Bertolt Brecht to describe the aesthetics of epic theatre.
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See also
- Alienation
- Bertolt Brecht
- defamiliarization
- Epic Theatre
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Nagisa Oshima
- Lars von Trier
- Hal Hartley
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