In this article, we return to methodological aspects of investigation on representations of working-class found in documentary cinema. Through discussion with based on concepts from Marx and other theorists such as Lukacs, Adorno, Benjamin, and Kracauer, we here seek to review the terms of this research experience from its proposal approach and deepen an approach to the concept of representation that contemplates the form and content aspects of the film as a work of art. In this way, we point to a correlation between representation and social reality, emphasizing the relevance of creative elements intrinsic to it. To this aim, we seek to analyze the film as a result of the determinations from the mutually mediated relationship between artists and social reality. Then, we seek to unfold such reflections in procedures analysis, exposing the use of such elements in the research cited, in order to contribute to the methodological reflections about sociology of art from the accumulated experience in our investigations.
Sociology; Cinema; Documentary cinema; Methodology; Art