{"id":44,"date":"2019-04-28T05:06:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T05:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/~mica\/wordpress\/?p=44"},"modified":"2020-04-01T23:42:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T23:42:19","slug":"look-whos-still-talking-the-most-in-movies-white-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/look-whos-still-talking-the-most-in-movies-white-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Who\u2019s Still Talking the Most in Movies: White Men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Posted on August 4, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Times, Johanna Barr<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With \u201cWonder Woman\u201d and \u201cGirls Trip\u201d riding a wave of critical and commercial success at the box office this summer, it can be tempting to think that diversity in Hollywood is on an upswing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But these high-profile examples are not a sign of greater representation in films over all. A new study<\/a> from the University of Southern California\u2019s Viterbi School of Engineering found that films were likely to contain fewer women and minority characters than white men, and when they did appear, these characters were portrayed in ways that reinforced stereotypes. And female characters, in particular, were generally less central to the plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study, conducted by the school\u2019s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab, used artificial intelligence and machine learning to do a linguistic analysis of nearly 1,000 popular film scripts, mostly from the last several decades. Of the 7,000 characters studied, nearly 4,900 were men and just over 2,000 were women. And perhaps unsurprisingly, the male characters spoke far more than the female ones did, with 37,000 dialogues involving men and just 15,000 involving women. Full article on The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A visualization of \u201cDead Poets Society,\u201d left, and \u201cSilence of the Lambs,\u201d right, two of the films the researchers analyzed. The squares represent male characters and the circles represent female ones. The size and positioning of each node indicate how many lines each character had and how central he or she was to the plot.Credit…U.S.C. Viterbi School of Engineering<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Gal Gadot in a scene from \u201cWonder Woman.\u201d A study found that when female characters were removed from most movies, the plots didn\u2019t change much.Credit…Clay Enos\/Warner Bros. Entertainment, via Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,21,12,5,8,16,7,20,13,14],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}