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。每年都有一致的证据表明，在流行电影中，女性只占三分之一的发言角色。此外，关于后女权主义的学术研究强调了分析的必要性，这种分析超出了对叙事中“强势女性角色”存在的讨论，而是在女性角色与其他角色的关系定位的背景下考虑女性角色的存在。叙述。如果没有这种关系的重点，辩论仍然局限于个人主义的赋权概念，使妇女的叙事去政治化，因此经常忽视好莱坞叙事如何孤立男性中的女性角色，并剥夺妇女集体赋权的机会。这个问题的重要性比以往任何时候都更加清晰，因为#MeToo运动已经并将继续产生，这场运动强调了好莱坞与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的激进潜力集体而不是个人。该奖学金将建立在我的博士研究平台上，以产生一些出版物和研究成果，这些出版物和研究成果将向不同的观众传播我关于大片中对话性别分布的小说数据中的关键发现和论点。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方法，多变量网络数据来分析这些叙述中的性别互动模式。这些工具使我们能够探索的问题，不仅有多少妇女发言，但也有多少，他们经常与其他妇女，他们说什么，以及通过什么机制和模式，他们的对话的特点。除了这些目标，我的目标是探索如何从好莱坞电影的这些发现可以与英国电影业的背景下，那里也有一个强烈的需求，定量研究解决各种代表性的不平等，坚持在该部门，尽管多年的“多样性的谈话”，并努力解决这些不平衡。

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