ABSTRACT
Objective:
to reflect on the methodological perspectives for the development of film analysis in socio-historical researches in the healthcare area.
Method:
critical-reflexive analysis organized in three sections which was based on texts from recognized researchers in the areas of cinema, history, sociology and semiotics. The study critically addresses the main characteristics, challenges and potentialities inherent in the use of film sources.
Results:
elements for the composition of matrices for methodological treatment of these sources were indicated, considering aspects related to description, decomposition, criticism and historical-sociological, content and discourse analysis.
Conclusion:
in the contemporary process of audiovisual visualization of the social world, film analysis is proposed as a potential method for approaching issues inherent to the healthcare field and to the phenomena of care in its evolutionary, historical and cultural processes.
DESCRIPTORS:
Research; Methodology; Health; Sociology; History; History of nursing; Cinema as subject; Cinematographic documentaries