Verfremdungseffekt
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Verfremdungseffekt is a theatrical technique that deliberately distances the audience emotionally from the action to encourage critical reflection on the play’s social and political themes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Verfremdungseffekt canonical | 5 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brechtian concept
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dramatic theory concept ⓘ theatrical technique ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
distance the audience emotionally from the stage action
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encourage critical reflection by the audience ⓘ highlight political themes ⓘ highlight social themes ⓘ |
| appliedInWorksBy |
Bertolt Brecht
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Erwin Piscator ⓘ |
| centralTo |
Brechtian acting style
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Brechtian staging ⓘ |
| coinedBy | Bertolt Brecht ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
Poetics
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surface form:
Aristotelian catharsis
emotional identification with characters ⓘ |
| developedInContextOf | epic theatre ⓘ |
| employs |
breaking the fourth wall
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direct address to the audience ⓘ gestus ⓘ historical or geographic shifts to defamiliarize events ⓘ non-naturalistic acting ⓘ projected text and titles ⓘ songs that comment on the action ⓘ visible stage machinery ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | V-effekt ⓘ |
| hasEnglishName |
alienation effect
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distancing effect ⓘ estrangement effect ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
making the familiar strange
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revealing the constructed nature of theatre ⓘ |
| hasOriginalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century theatre theory
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contemporary performance practice ⓘ political performance art ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Marxist theory ⓘ |
| opposes |
illusionistic theatre
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naturalistic theatre conventions ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
critical distance
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defamiliarization ⓘ estrangement ⓘ |
| seeksTo |
encourage audiences to see events as changeable
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prevent passive consumption of theatre ⓘ promote social critique ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
literary theory
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performance studies ⓘ theatre studies ⓘ |
| usedIn |
didactic theatre
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epic theatre productions ⓘ political theatre ⓘ |
Referenced by (5)
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