Posted on August 4, 2017
IndieWire, KateErbland
Talk isn’t cheap. And, in Hollywood, it still seems to come predominately out of male mouths.
The Wrap reports that, over at the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab (SAIL), a new study has broken down the metrics of nearly 1,000 film scripts to better understand how language can impact the way various groups, particularly gender, are portrayed on screen.
Using a tool developed by the lab and “in conjunction with existing cognitive and developmental language tools, researchers Anil Ramakrishna, Victor R. Martinez, Nikolaos Malandrakis, and Karan Singla, doctoral students in Computer Science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, together with Professor Shrikanth Narayanan, the Niki and C. L. Max Nikias Chair in Engineering, were able to quantify the sophistication and the tone of language of 7,000 characters and over 53,000 dialogues.” Full article on IndieWire
