alienation effect
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alienation effect — ▪ theatre also called a effect or distancing effect , German Verfremdungseffekt or V effekt idea central to the dramatic theory of the German dramatist director Bertolt Brecht (Brecht, Bertolt). It involves the use of techniques designed to… … Universalium
Alienation — may refer to:*Alienation (property law), the legal transfer of title of ownership to another party * Alienation , the medical term for splitting apart of the faculties of the mind *Social alienation, the individual subject s estrangement from its … Wikipedia
alienation — n. 1 the act or result of alienating. 2 (Theatr. alienation effect) a dramatic effect whereby an audience remains objective, not identifying with the characters or action of a play … Useful english dictionary
alienation — noun 1》 the state or experience of being alienated. ↘Psychiatry a state of depersonalization or loss of identity in which the self seems unreal. 2》 Theatre an effect, sought by some dramatists, whereby the audience remains objective and does… … English new terms dictionary
alienation office — The public office in London where the fees called the primer fine and the post fine were collected from those who employed the procedure of fine and recovery to effect transfers of land titles … Ballentine's law dictionary
Distancing effect — The distancing effect, commonly mistranslated as the alienation effect[dubious – discuss] (German: Verfremdungseffekt), is a performing arts concept coined by playwright Bertolt Brecht which prevents the audience from losing itself passively and… … Wikipedia
Marx's theory of alienation — Part of a series on Marxism … Wikipedia
Parental alienation syndrome — is a term coined by Richard A. Gardner to describe what he referred to as a disturbance in which children are obsessively preoccupied with depreciation and/or criticism of a parent. In other words, denigration that is unjustified and or… … Wikipedia
Western alienation — Western alienation, in Canadian politics, is the concept of the Western provinces, namely British Columbia (B.C.), Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, being alienated, and in extreme cases excluded, from mainstream political affairs within the… … Wikipedia
Zone of alienation — The Zone of Alienation, which is variously referred to as The Chernobyl Zone, The 30 Kilometer Zone, The Zone of Exclusion, The Fourth Zone, or simply The Zone (Ukrainian official designation: Зона відчуження Чорнобильської АЕС, zona… … Wikipedia
