{"id":140,"date":"2020-01-28T23:56:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T23:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/~mica\/wordpress\/?p=140"},"modified":"2020-04-01T23:35:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T23:35:22","slug":"female-characters-in-films-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/female-characters-in-films-often\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Characters In Films Often.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Posted on August 14, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.co.uk\/\">BRITISH VOGUE<\/a><strong>&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.co.uk\/profile\/katie-berrington\" target=\"_blank\">KATIE BERRINGTON<\/a>&nbsp;AND&nbsp;SARAH CROMPTON<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A study of the language used in almost 1,000 film scripts has shed light again on the chasm that exists between the ways that male and female characters are portrayed onscreen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/~mica\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gal-gadot-3-vogue-7nov16-rex-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gal-gadot-3-vogue-7nov16-rex-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gal-gadot-3-vogue-7nov16-rex-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gal-gadot-3-vogue-7nov16-rex-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gal-gadot-3-vogue-7nov16-rex-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gal-gadot-3-vogue-7nov16-rex.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If womens&#8217; roles are removed from a plot, it often makes no difference to the story, according to the report in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/why-hollywood-s-female-stars-get-all-the-worst-lines-tn0sm9b7r\"><em>The Times<\/em><\/a>. The research &#8211; which used automated tools for linguistic analysis and was conducted by USC Viterbi School of Engineering\u2019s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab (SAIL) &#8211; also showed that female characters tend to be around five years younger than their male counterparts. Full article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.co.uk\/article\/female-characters-get-worst-lines-in-films-study-reveals\">vogue.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Makes No Difference To The Plot&#8221;, study reveals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,21,12,5,8,16,7,13,14,6],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}