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Distancing effect, an Uncommon card
The distancing effect, also translated as alienation effect, is a concept in performing arts credited to German playwright Bertolt Brecht.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 35
- Power
- 99
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 41,000
Power 99 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Brecht first used the term in his essay "Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting" published in 1936, in which he described it as performing "in such a way that the audience was hindered from simply identifying itself with the characters in the play.
- Acceptance or rejection of their actions and utterances was meant to take place on a conscious plane, instead of, as hitherto, in the audience's subconscious".
- These remarks find their precedent in an essay largely devoted to the theory of Brecht's epic theater, "The Author as Producer," written by Walter Benjamin in 1934.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Distancing effect article was read about 41,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 35: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Distancing effect (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.


