• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.131-138
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• 2019

In general, film acting refers to American method or Hollywood method. Hollywood method is a term to denominate collectively actors from Group Theatre of Lee Strasberg which accepted Russian Stanislavski's system as American acting. We can find out the origins of Korean acting in the attitude of actors who imitate Hollywood. Hollywood method, which seem to be more systematic and rational in the previous Sin-pa, has begun to be accepted in the fields of actors, directors, critics, and educators. The perception of Hollywood method in Korea is part of the search for the identity of Korean film acting. This article approaches from the perspective of four fields. First, it is Korean actors' perceptions about Hollywood methods. Second, I examine the attitude of the direction of staff and technical aesthetics regarding Hollywood method. Third, it is evaluation aspect in criticism area. Fourth, it is an aspect of education.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.275-286
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• 2020

In this paper, through a questionnaire to currently active actors, we sought to understand their understanding of American acting methods and whether there are any particularly effective or ineffective acting training methods among various method related to this. For this, pre-questionnaire was conducted to ask about their understanding of American action methods, and post-questionnaire was conducted to find effectiveness of American acting method and effect of individual method after performing simple acting training with four representative theories of American action methods According to the analysis, the actors surveyed were not familiar with the American acting method and want to systematic methods in acting training. All of the acting training through the American acting method were effective, especially Stella Adler's imagination was the most effective method. The least effective method was Sanford Meisner's repetition. The results of this study can be used as fundamental data for introduction and utilization of American acting method in domestic acting training.