Brechtian
Adjective
Meaning
Brechtian (comparative more Brechtian, superlative most Brechtian)
Of or pertaining to Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), German poet and playwright, or his works.
Examples
De Palma describes the sequence as a constant invocation of Brechtian distanciation: “First of all, I am interested in the medium of film itself, and I am constantly standing outside and making people aware that they are always watching a film.
The comics are thematically tied to the main narrative, but their essential function is Brechtian in nature, making the reader conscious that this is, indeed, a comic book.
It may use Brechtian alienation strategies to jar us, in order to 'defamiliarize' what we are seeing and how we are seeing it.
“This theatrical piece creates a Brechtian,” “epic drama” that relies on the reflective rather than emotional involvement of the audience--a “commentary on the sexual roles and games in Williams’s text.”
There’s a Brechtian distance while recording, where you don’t act something out fully, but you’re present in empathy with the characters in the room.”
“I thought it was so bad that it could be a Brechtian pastiche,” she told Time Out New York in 2004.