Distancing effect
PERFORMING ARTS CONCEPT
Defamiliarization Effect; Alienation Effect; Brechtian alienation; Defamiliarization effect; V-effekt; V-effect; V-Effect; V-Effekt; Verfremdungseffekt; Alienation-Effect; Aesthetic Distance; Verfremdung; Estrangement effect; Alienation effect; Distancing Effect; Alienating effect; A-effect; Alienation device
The distancing effect, more commonly known (earlier) by John Willett's 1964 translation as the alienation effect or (more recently) as the estrangement effect ( or V-Effekt), is a performing arts concept coined by German playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956).