Exploring the marginalisation of women in popular cinema using quantitative network tools

使用定量网络工具探索流行电影中女性的边缘化

• 批准号: ES/V011472/1
• 负责人: Pete Jones
• 金额: $ 12.23万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV011472%2F1
• 关键词: Exploring; marginalisation; women; popular; cinema

The aim of this fellowship is to use statistical tools to explore the gender biases in mainstream Hollywood cinema. There is consistent year-on-year evidence that women occupy only one in three speaking roles in popular cinema. Moreover, scholarship on post-feminism has highlighted the need for analyses which move beyond discussion of the presence of a "strong female character" within a narrative, and consider the presence of female characters in the context of their relational positioning among the other characters in the narrative. Without this relational focus, debates remain limited to individualistic notions of empowerment that depoliticise women's narratives, and thus frequently overlook how Hollywood narratives isolate female characters amongst men and deny women opportunities for collective empowerment. The importance of this issue is clearer than ever given the waves that the #MeToo movement has made and continues to make, a movement which has highlighted both the severe ingrained issues related to gender and power in Hollywood, as well as the radical potential that comes from female voices and stories that are collective rather than individual. The fellowship will build on the platform of my doctoral research in order to produce a number of publications and research outputs which will disseminate key findings and arguments from my novel data on the gendered distribution of dialogue in blockbuster cinema to diverse audiences. In particular, I aim to use emerging statistical tools including relational event models and entropy-based approaches to multivariate network data to analyse gendered patterns of interaction in these narratives. These tools allow us to explore questions surrounding not only how much women speak, but also how often they speak with other women, what they speak about, and by what mechanisms and patterns their dialogue is characterised. Alongside these goals, I aim to explore how these findings from Hollywood cinema can be related to the context of the UK film industry, where there is also a strong need for quantitative research addressing the various representational inequalities that persist in the sector despite years of "diversity talk" and efforts at addressing these imbalances.

该奖学金的目的是使用统计工具来探索好莱坞主流电影中的性别偏见。持续的证据表明，女性在流行电影中只占据三分之一的角色。此外，关于后女性主义的奖学金强调了进行分析的必要性，这些分析超出了对叙事中“强烈的角色”存在的讨论，并在叙事中其他角色之间的关系定位的背景下考虑了女性角色的存在。没有这种关系重点，辩论仍然限于赋予妇女叙事的赋权的个人主义概念，因此经常忽略好莱坞叙事如何将女性角色隔离在男人中，并拒绝妇女获得集体授权的机会。鉴于#MeToo运动已经引起并继续引起的波浪，这个问题的重要性比以往任何时候都更加明显，这一运动强调了与好莱坞的性别和权力有关的严重根深蒂固的问题，以及来自女性的声音和故事而不是集体而不是个人而不是个人。奖学金将基于我的博士研究平台，以生成许多出版物和研究成果，这些出版物将从我的新颖数据中传播有关大片电影中对话的性别分布到多元化观众的新数据。特别是，我的目标是使用新兴的统计工具，包括关系事件模型和基于熵的多元网络数据的方法，以分析这些叙述中的性别相互作用模式。这些工具使我们能够探讨围绕女性说话的问题，而且还可以与其他女性说话，谈论的话以及通过他们对话的特征和模式的频率。除了这些目标外，我的目标是探讨好莱坞电影院的这些发现如何与英国电影业的背景有关，在英国电影业中，尽管多年的“多样性谈话”和解决这些不平衡的努力，但仍需要定量研究来解决该部门的各种代表性不平等。

项目成果

Full-Throttle Franchise: The Culture, Business and Politics of Fast & Furious

全速特许经营：快速的文化、商业和政治

• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Jones P