Jan 26, 2018
Alienation and Distancing Make Lemon's Lemonade
.@dapisdope talks Brechtian Distancing in Janicza Bravo's Lemon (2017)
I think it was my junior year of college when I learned about “Brechtian Distancing.” It was part of my upperclassman adventures in electives, which included a healthy amount of German Cinema classes. Electives were in high demand that year and the professor who taught these classes was known to be mild-mannered, serious about learning and informative. It also didn’t hurt that he kinda looked…
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