> Some posts ago, someone questioned my saying Mizoguchi resembles Brecht,
> the objection being that Mizo gets us emotionally involved whereas
> Brecht alienates us. But this is an Anglo-American corruption of what
> Brecht wanted, which was to increase emotional involvement.

Could you elaborate on what Brecht really wanted? What I said was,
"When I think of the adjective 'Brechtian,' though, I think of the
artist pushing the viewer back away from a certain pleasurable
identification, forcing them to a distance so that the pleasure of
immersion doesn't obscure some other consideration." But I'm no expert
on the subject. - Dan