Towards a sociological research approach to naturalistic film acting

Abstract

The history of professional film acting in narrative-representative cinema is marked not only by an everlasting search for technique and repertoire ‘authenticity’, but also the emulation of behaviors aiming for desired authority of imitation. Naturalistic film acting, in order to achieve such ‘efficiency’ throughout the production of fictional characters, used a type of research approach that Damour (2019) named ‘sociological method of film acting’. This work attempts to weave an interdisciplinary path (actoral studies – sociology) for acting work, therefore quoting its steps, setbacks and most important characteristics.