{"id":3375,"date":"2018-01-12T12:39:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T12:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:11","slug":"gender-imbalance-in-film-scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2018\/01\/12\/gender-imbalance-in-film-scripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender imbalance in film scripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/homes.cs.washington.edu\/~msap\/movie-bias\/\">University of Washington computer scientists have created a tool<\/a> which analyses film scripts to consider the relative power and agency of characters in films.\u00a0 Their results showed women in more passive roles.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/13\/new-tool-quantifies-power-imbalance-between-female-and-male-characters-in-hollywood-movie-scripts\/\">See the press release from the University.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read their paper for more about how the connotation frames were created and for detailed analyses of gender bias in movie characters:<br \/>\nMaarten Sap, Marcella Cindy Prasetio, Ari Holtzman, Hannah Rashkin, &amp; Yejin Choi (2017) <a href=\"https:\/\/homes.cs.washington.edu\/~msap\/pdfs\/sap2017connotation.pdf\">Connotation Frames of Power and Agency in Modern Films<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu\/research\/\">Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film<\/a> publishes regular reports on the employment of women as directors and producers in the USA TV and film industry.\u00a0 It also has some materials about screen roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Washington computer scientists have created a tool which analyses film scripts to consider the relative power and agency of characters in films.\u00a0 Their results showed women in more passive roles.\u00a0 See the press release from the University. Read their paper for more about how the connotation frames were created and for detailed analyses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[32,95,99],"class_list":["post-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","category-sociology","tag-cinema","tag-usa","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3376,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}