Alienation Effect
🔹 The German dramatist Bertolt Brecht adapted the Russian Formalist concept of defamiliarization in his epic theatre of the 1920's and later called it the alienation effect (Verfremdungseffekt)
🔹 prevents the emotional identification or involvement of the audience with the characters and their actions in a play.
🔹 makes familiar aspects of the present social reality seem strange.
🔹 prevents jadedness, incapacity to feel and social apathy in the audience
🔹 The German dramatist Bertolt Brecht adapted the Russian Formalist concept of defamiliarization in his epic theatre of the 1920's and later called it the alienation effect (Verfremdungseffekt)
🔹 prevents the emotional identification or involvement of the audience with the characters and their actions in a play.
🔹 makes familiar aspects of the present social reality seem strange.
🔹 prevents jadedness, incapacity to feel and social apathy in the audience
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