Sentence examples for alienation effect from inspiring English sources

It speaks for the alienated, yet flirts with the alienation effect in its music.

Byrne is seeking a Brechtian alienation effect.

What he describes almost sounds like Brecht's Verfremdungseffekt or "alienation effect".

Brecht's seldom workable "alienation effect" -- emphasize ideology, eliminate sentiment -- is particularly counterproductive and irrelevant here.

Brechtians, take note: this is a doozy of an alienation effect (1 50).

Mr. McElroen and this fine company add more layers to the alienation effect that Brecht wanted.

Viewing a tale of pre-Christian violation through Christian eyes, its amalgam of brutality and moralising, the latter giving rise to theatrical alienation effects, can seem unwieldy.

Her first tactic is to dispense with the alienation effects, and to make the Male and Female Choruses (Allan Clayton and Kate Valentine) complicit in the tale they tell.

These alienation effects I found more irritating than revealing, but a number of people have been greatly impressed by this film.

Wall the director deploys Brechtian alienation effects, to a fault, in his use of models and actors: in "The Goat" (1989), the stilted postures of four boys bullying a fifth quash any possible drama.

I don't think the movie achieves its aim, especially when Haneke uses alienation effects like the smirking young psychopaths talking straight to camera, or one of them taking a remote control and rewinding the film to eliminate a scene of the wife successfully fighting back.