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	The Film Journal...Passionate and informed film criticism from an auteurist perspective.
		In addition though, beyond the relative Brechtian or anti-Brechtian elements of Welles' acting, a variety of further influences, ranging from the practices of 19th Century melodrama and Shakespearean performance, to Stanislavskian-based Method acting, can also at times be discerned in his style.
		As such, beyond Anderegg's Brechtian interpretation of this performance, it seems equally plausible to relate Welles' complex realization of Charles Foster Kane to a desire to suggest the ultimate complexity, indefiniteness, and performativity of identity itself.
		Moreover, through the simultaneous foregrounding of his own individual presence, and the general confusion between the performances of the actor and of the character that occur throughout this film, this theme might well be extended to the enigmatic, labyrinthine nature of Welles himself.
	www.thefilmjournal.com /issue9/wellesperformance.html (4987 words)

	Title page for ETD etd-08192003-091215
		The purpose of this essay is to indicate the Brechtian elements of Michael Frayn's Copenhagen.
		This essay departs from other scholarship in that it shows the ways that Copenhagen works in the Brechtian mode, which is far from new.
		This essay also shows the ways in which the goals of Brechtian theatre were accomplished through Copenhagen.
	www.lib.ncsu.edu /theses/available/etd-08192003-091215 (155 words)

	Brechtian and Aztec violence in Valdez's 'Zoot Suit.' - playwright Luis Valdez's musical play - The Shows of Violence ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Yet the film's clothing and cars set it in the 1940s, the time of the historical Sleepy Lagoon murder and zoot-suit riots.
		The film is valuable in a Brechtian sense because it prompts various political views - even while it shows an opposite, Artaudian desire for a primal, unifying contact with lost, spiritual forces.(6)
		As Henry's alter ego, he pressures him in various directions, stirring rebellious violence or coaching with calma, or stopping the action in a Brechtian manner to make Henry (and the audience) think.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0412/is_n2_v26/ai_21221634 (890 words)

	ARTicles: Vladimir -- Julia Lesage -- Godard and Gorin's left politics, 1967-1972
		Aesthetically, he used Brechtian techniques in an anti-illusionist way for social comment and critique years before he turned to the left.
		Guillaume, a self-professed "Brechtian" actor, said he had heard a lecture by Cinémathèque director Henri Langlois proving that the film pioneer Lumière had filmed exactly the same things Picasso, Renoir and Manet were painting then: railroad stations, public places, people playing cards, people leaving factories, and tramways.
		Although Mao's advice to artists concerned only artistic quality and not Brechtian or modernist innovations in form, for Godard and Gorin the struggle on two fronts came to mean two things: (1) to fight the bourgeoisie and "its ally, revisionism" (25) and (2) to critique political errors within a new leftist cinematic form.
	www.16beavergroup.org /mtarchive/archives/001823.php (9496 words)

	South Coast Repertory Playgoers Guide - The Caucasian Chalk Circle
		Those writings have become as important to his legacy as his plays, so that today when we allude to a Brechtian approach we are referring to his ideas as much as—if not more than—to the plays he wrote.
		Its story is pure fairy tale (told from an entirely unsentimental Brechtian point-of-view), set in a far-flung locale that allows for extravagant costume and scenery; it features romance, battles, beheadings, harrowing treks across dangerous mountains, and a climactic trial whose stakes carry the highest emotional intensity.
		The play’s story-teller sings his narration; the central character is a (tough, spirited) damsel in distress; the secondary protagonist is a clownish bumbler whose cynic’s dogged pragmatism is only a mask for good intentions.
	www.scr.org /season/05-06season/playgoers/chalk/theatre.html (929 words)

	Brecht
		In the Brechtian theatre the character's inner life is of no importance, save in its effect on outward action.
		While some playwrights have accepted particular Brechtian techniques, his general effect, to cause writers to seek new conventions of representing human experience, is more important.
		A less successful Brechtian device in the latter play appears when Thomas Cromwell sings an ironical song about the ship of state, but this jars with the otherwise un-ironic manner of the play and the main characters' archaic-naturalistic speech.
	www.universalteacher.org.uk /drama/brecht.htm (5798 words)

	Module and Programme Catalogue
		This module will enable students to understand the principles of Brechtian dramaturgy and their application in contemporary drama contexts.
		Since a large proportion of written drama in the second half of the twentieth century has drawn on Brechtian thinking and modes of dramatic writing, this exercise will help students to gain a fuller understanding of Brecht's influence through consciously imposing his ideas on plays which were not written with this function in mind.
		The module will also enable students to engage closely with a Brechtian text, exploring its context, content and function in detail through creative use of the lecture demonstration.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /modules/200203/ug/paci2043.htm (262 words)

	Manderlay (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Von Trier has cited German playwright Bertolt Brecht (right) as an artistic inspiration; yet one may wonder if he is reinventing the Brechtian wheel, one that Brecht himself admitted did not turn for others as he had wished.
		On one level, the film is set in 1930s Alabama, on a plantation called Manderlay, where 70 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is apparently still being practiced.
		All of these aspects should be considered through the lens of his Brechtian alienation techniques.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0342735 (1203 words)

	Refracting the Gaze
		Yet we feminists in drama and theatre studies have attended more to the critique of the gaze than to the Brechtian intervention that signals a way of dismantling the gaze.
		Ultimately, the fitful montage, which contains frequent Brechtian (distancing) interruptions that make visible both filmmaking conceits and character apologia, describes Nola's escape from narrative explanation driven by male-identified desire and the consequent entrapment of the "men" in their own (unavailing) stories.
		Clearly, he situates Nola in a reverse Don Juan configuration in order to provoke questioning of the gender-based "double standard." Furthermore, it is apparent that Nola does not play the men against each other, however much the men prefer to construct (or condemn) her actions by explaining them in miscalculated phallocentric stories.
	www.smcm.edu /users/jrklein/gazepaper.htm (2496 words)

	No Sheep » What’s “Brechtian”?
		Twice in the last month I’ve heard things referred to as “Brechtian”.
		A perfect example of this is Dogville, starring Nicole Kidman.
		“Brechtian” theatre (1) - brechtian entertainment (1) - what are brechtian techniques (1) - dogville + theatre (1) - 3 brechtian techniques (1) - dogville (1) - Brechtian theory wikipedia (1) - Bertoldt Brecht (epic theatre) (1) - unnatural stage lighting technique (1) -
	nosheep.net /story/whats-brechtian (250 words)

	ESR \| March 13, 2006 \| Paul Haggis: Hollywood's Brechtian advocate
		So obviously Haggis is taking his orders from the same Marxist manuals as Bertolt Brecht, the gifted playwright who, after his sojourn in Hollywood, chose to return to East Berlin to run an agitprop theatre at the height of the Cold War.
		Joyce, hardly a Brechtian, had been trained by Jesuits at Trinity College in Dublin.
		I doubt if Haggis, a devout Brechtian, suffers from such divided loyalties, although he does inject a Catholic priest into the life of Eastwood’s Frankie Dunn character in Million Dollar Baby.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0306/0306haggis.htm (972 words)

	Brechtian Techniques (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Brecht did not want this to happen; he wanted the audience to question, make comment and interpret what was on the stage.
		The Brechtian theatre does not show the human nature of an individual but reveals collective human relations.
		Lauren is also acting in the production, and because she has such a close relationship to the process and the story, it has made the music so much more fitting to the production.
	www.usq.edu.au /PerformanceCentre/education/brechtian+techniques.htm (1626 words)

	Bertolt Brecht - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is buried in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof on Chausseestraße in the Mitte neighborhood of Berlin.
		Brechtian is a term used by drama critics in regards to anything recalling Brecht's particular style and approach to theatre.
		Brecht left the Berliner Ensemble to his wife, the actress Helene Weigel, which she ran until her death in 1971.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bertolt_Brecht (2714 words)

	Isser/Brecht and Shakespeare
		Numerous Brechtian staging devices began appearing regularly in British Shakespearean productions: placards and projections; masks for characterization; the half-curtain and the revelation of stage mechanisms; and the developed relationship between actors and their props.
		Rouse points specifically to the influence of the company on Peter Zadek who was raised in London and began his theatrical career in Britain before becoming the foremost director in the German theater (Rouse, 276).
		Brook’s Brechtian musings and experiments apparently had a great impact on Charles Marowitz who was his assistant during the 1960s.
	www.holycross.edu /departments/theatre/eisser/BrechtianShakespeare.html (2842 words)

	Journal - The bundle
		The Bundle is one of the most Brechtian works of this most Brechtian of British dramatist, the first of the plays in which Bond undertook to construct his own version of a "teaching play," providing a dramatically powerful parable depicting both social injustice and (as Brecht usually did not) its reform.
		Each half of the play introduced by a powerful dance and mime sequence performed by the entire company, much of the rhythm of which the company also provided by percussive instruments they carried--long bamboo poles and short sticks at the opening, small bells and large plastic water bottles later.
		Steven Satta as the Ferryman, the play's most fully developed character, was also, appropriately, the actor most committed to psychological nuance in his playing, and he movingly evoked series of moral dilemmas in which he is placed by the play.
	www.irondale.org /press/reviews/96/journal.htm (808 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: A Courageous Attempt
		The Brechtian audience ideally should leave the theater saying not, "Wow, that was a moving play," but rather.
		A white screen framed by bronze--like the fl canvas of an as-yet unpainted portrait of a war hero-provides the backdrop for the simple set, a battlefield-like void.
		Plot summaries are flashed on the screen before each scene slides projected onto the screen change the setting in the blink of an eye.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=191941 (900 words)

	John Heartfield: Making the Musical
		After ten years of reading Brecht's works, it is with some trepidation that he "tackles" the double feat of playing him, and performing as a Brechtian actor.
		Rohaizad shared with me, that psychological and emotional approaches to character building is not enough for a Brechtian actor, she must also bring to her "demonstration" of the character a commentary, usually, a political one.
		Rohaizad finds some similarity between Asian traditions, and Brechtian acting techniques; One example he uses is, "addressing spectators directly, and acknowledging their presence in the performance"
	www.towson.edu /heartfield/making/actor.html (557 words)

	John Heartfield: Making the Musical
		For example, Ken Vega clearly intends for the use of Brechtian devices in Heartfield, so I have to be vigilant about letting the actors get too caught up in acting the scenes realistically.
		We explore a scene for its relationships and emotional truth, but then I have to find ways to distance the actors from the realism of the scene.
		Hear Kate talk about Brechtian devices and how they were used in Heartfield.
	www.towson.edu /heartfield/making/director.html (261 words)

	IFP.org - Filmmaker Interviews
		The Brechtian soundstage location for Lars von Trier's Dogville.
		The film centers on Grace (Nicole Kidman), a beautiful, well-dressed woman who, several decades back, wanders into dead-end Dogville, Colo., which abuts an abandoned silver mine and the Rockies.
		Von Trier has mentioned several sources of inspiration, among them Brechtian theater, Kurt Weill's song "Pirate Jenny" (also set in an isolated town) and the television plays that were popular in the 1950s and again in the 1970s.
	www.ifp.org /interviews/interview.php?id=70 (1896 words)

	HSC Online
		In 1997 their music reached further audiences with the release of September Songs on a CD which even featured Brecht himself and his spoken version of Mack the Knife.
		Work with four or five others in the class to improvise an aspect of Brechtian practice such as the difference in presentation of a scene shown naturalistically and then in an epic theatre style.
		Remember that voice and movement are important in Brechtian acting and that blocking can involve unusual ideas.
	hsc.csu.edu.au /drama/hsc/studies/brecht/2758/Brecht.htm (7289 words)

	Kinoeye \| Austrian film: Michael Haneke's Funny Games
		Paul explains Peter's actions by referring to him as "a spoiled child tormented by ennui and world weariness, weighed down by the void of existence," at the same time winking directly at the camera.
		The Brechtian paradox in the film is that the viewer occupies the same emotional level as the Schobers, while at the meta-narrative level s/he is invited to share the point of view of the psychopathic killers.
		By combining elements of Brechtian distanciation with elements that encourage identification with and empathy towards the protagonists, Funny Games appears to be more efficient in its ethical pursuit than what it would have been had it stuck to only one of the tactics.
	www.kinoeye.org /04/01/laine01.php (1752 words)

	What Brechtian playwright cast children in his plays? \| Ask MetaFilter
		IIRC, this playwright is considered an heir to the Brechtian tradition, and he accordingly hated using professional actors with practiced mannerisms.
		In order to achieve verfremdungseffekt when directing, he would sometimes cast high schoolers with no previous acting expreience.
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	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/28873 (277 words)

	India Books and Music - A Comparative Study of Brechtian and Classical Indian Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For, the book does not merely contain the relevant information, both from Natyashastra as well as Brechtian theatre, but also interprets it in the context of modern Indian experimental theatre.
		I feel, this study will help to clarify some of the confusion in the minds of theatre practitioners and will force them to rethink about their strategy in modern theatre.
		I do hope Dr Anjala Maharishi’s work proves helpful in practical terms to theatre practitioners as well as young actors and research scholars in various Universities.
	www.indiaclub.com /html/14295.htm (276 words)

	Aesthetic Approaches to the Design and Study of MUDs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Is theatrical "realism" itself inherently more "virtual" than other physical space production modes (such as Brechtian performance) because it aims to produce an illusion and for the audience to suspend its disbelief, to view the performance "as if it were real"?
		In Internet and computer-based arenas, it may be more to the point to identify the aims and effects of the production/program/interface--how does it or do its designers want the audience/participants to be affected--and how does the audience interpret the production/program/interface?
		But whether the production comes across as realistic or Brechtian, for instance, depends on audience reaction and interpretation.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /currents/cwrl/v1n1/article3/virtual.html (387 words)

	Stratics Central - Brechtian Gaming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Being an optimist (okay, so I'm a cranky old opinioned optimistic bastage), I'm sure that in another two years, 3D will have evolved to the point where even the poorly programmed stuff will not be distracting, BUGZ will no longer be part of our software, and griefers will finally mature.
		Perhaps, for the rest of our online lives, we will have to continually strive against Brechtian programming and Brechtian gaming.
		In my next article, I'll present the mathematical formula for determing the "Brechtian Ratio" (the lower the better) of a game.
	www.stratics.com /content/mmogweekly/mmog/vol55.php (734 words)

	Twin Peaks Gazette Message Board - Powered by JorkelBB 2006 (beta)
		This method of automatism is an innate function of the human being, Breton just defined it as surrealism, but that doesn't mean there has been no surrealism (by definition) from the beginning of humanity up to modernism.
		I see Brechtian alienation as an element of realism, and I would say for example Bergman certainly uses it quite a bit.
		But Lynch I would say falls into the side of subjective expressionism of abstract perceptions of the mind.
	www.twinpeaksgazette.com /community/topic.cfm?topicid=1776 (691 words)

	A Smile in the Dark (1991) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His Brechtian approach creates a film in which the only reasonable viewer response is to detach emotionally from it and to not care; A DAY IN L.A. has, interestingly, received so little public distribution as to prop up my hypothesis.
		Shaver and some other good performers (like Charles Hallahan, Alix Koromzay and Carolyn Seymour) underplay to the point of deadpan lifelessness - they are mere puppets, you might say.
		It is another unfunny Brechtian reference, consistent with the director's relentless drive to make a movie that is as inaccesible to the viewer as humanly possible.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0163256 (550 words)

	VampireFreaks Cult: The_Dresdon_Dolls
		The Cult of the Brechtian Punk Cabaret is here in all its glory!
		The Cult of the Dresden Dolls is (quite suprisingly) a Cult based around the Brechtian punk duet- The Dresden Dolls.
		The Dresden Dolls is a Brechtian punk duet consisting of Amanda Palmer and Brian Vigilone (pianist and drummer/guitarist).
	vampirefreaks.com /cult.php?c=The_Dresdon_Dolls (992 words)

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