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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Alienation Effect"”.
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Truly An Awesome Spectacle: Gender Performativity And The Alienation Effect In Angels In America
Tony Kushner's two-part play Angels in America uses stereotypical depictions of gay men to deconstruct traditional gender dichotomies. In this thesis, I argue that Kushner has created a continuum of gender performativity to deconstruct these traditional gender dichotomies, thereby empowering the …
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Places, Please!
… spotlight as painted tactics of the Brechtian alienation effect, to distance viewers from the immersive qualities of an oil painting and remind them to engage with the aestheticized imagery critically. Through Sigmund Freud’s concept of the uncanny, and Jean Baudrillard’s idea of the …
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Dialectical Metafiction and the Self-Conscious Subject of American Modernism
… Brecht developed his Verfremdungseffekt (or "alienation effect"), Sarah N. Cleghorn, Anna Louise Strong, and F. Scott Fitzgerald (in his short story "Winter Dreams") wrote dialectical metafiction, a literary form that reproduces the ideological forms of consciousness while contextualizing them …
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Fed to the Teeth: The Creation of the Title Role in Brecht's Baal
This thesis is an endeavor to accurately document and define my creative process as an actor through the title role in Bertolt Brecht's Baal. My aim is to meet and overcome the challenges that are inherent in creating any role, let alone one with the magnitude and complexity that Baal provides an …
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Global Extraction and Cultural Production: An Investigation of Forms of Extraction Through the Production of Artist-Video
… of narrative, the utopian impulse and the ‘alienation effect’ to critique global capitalism. Drawing on political economic theory, I argue that these new ‘zones’ of extraction have; forced the further ‘subjectification’ of labour; supported continued and on-going primitive accumulation – …
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Writers and Fighters: a comparative study of the Irish literary revival (1900 - 1922) with the revolutionary Chinese May Fourth literary era (1915 - 1927)
… writing anticipated some aspects of Brechtian Alienation Effect, a feature that is also perceivable in Lao She’s Teahouse.