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.

这项研究的目的是利用统计工具来探讨好莱坞主流电影中的性别偏见。每年都有一致的证据表明，在流行电影中，女性只占据了三分之一的说话角色。此外，关于后女权主义的学术研究强调，有必要进行分析，而不仅仅是讨论叙事中“强大的女性角色”的存在，而是考虑女性角色在叙事中与其他角色之间的关系定位。没有这种关系焦点，辩论仍然局限于个人主义的赋权概念，使女性叙事去政治化，因此经常忽视好莱坞叙事如何将女性角色与男性隔离开来，并剥夺女性获得集体赋权的机会。考虑到#MeToo运动已经掀起并将继续掀起的浪潮，这个问题的重要性比以往任何时候都更加清晰。#MeToo运动既突出了好莱坞与性别和权力有关的严重根深蒂固的问题，也突出了女性的声音和集体而非个人的故事所带来的激进潜力。该奖学金将建立在我博士研究的平台上，以产生一些出版物和研究成果，这些出版物和研究成果将从我关于大片电影中对话的性别分布的新数据中传播关键发现和论点给不同的观众。特别地，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方法，来分析这些叙事中互动的性别模式。这些工具使我们不仅可以探索女性说话的数量，还可以探索她们与其他女性交谈的频率、她们所说的内容以及她们的对话以何种机制和模式为特征。除了这些目标，我的目标是探索好莱坞电影的这些发现如何与英国电影业的背景联系起来，尽管多年来“多样性谈话”和努力解决这些不平衡问题，但英国电影业也迫切需要定量研究来解决该行业持续存在的各种代表性不平等问题。

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