Editing Method acting (section)

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[[File:Marlon Brando in 'Streetcar named Desire' trailer.jpg|thumb|[[Marlon Brando]]'s performance in [[Elia Kazan]]'s film of ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' exemplifies the power of Stanislavski-based acting in cinema.<ref>Blum (1984, 63) and Hayward (1996, 216).</ref>]]

'''Method acting''', known as '''the Method''', is a range of rehearsal techniques, as formulated by a number of different [[theatre practitioner]]s, that seeks to encourage sincere and expressive performances through identifying with, understanding, and experiencing a character's inner motivation and emotions.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.lexico.com/definition/Method_acting |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304103530/https://www.lexico.com/definition/method_acting |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 4, 2021 |title=Method acting |dictionary=[[Lexico]] UK English Dictionary |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref><ref>"[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/method-acting Method Acting]". ''Cambridge Dictionary''. Cambridge University Press.</ref> These techniques are built on [[Stanislavski's system]], developed by the Russian and Soviet actor and director [[Konstantin Stanislavski]] and captured in his books ''[[An Actor Prepares]]'', ''[[Building a Character]]'', and ''[[Creating a Role]]''.<ref name=krasner130 />

Among those who have contributed to the development of the Method, three teachers are associated with "having set the standard of its success", each emphasizing different aspects of the approach: [[Lee Strasberg]] (the psychological aspects), [[Stella Adler]] (the sociological aspects), and [[Sanford Meisner]] (the behavioral aspects).<ref name=krasner129>Krasner (2000b, 129).</ref> The approach was first developed when the three of them worked together at the [[Group Theatre (New York City)|Group Theatre]] in New York and later at the [[Actors Studio]].<ref name=krasner130>Krasner (2000b, 130).</ref>