{"id":232,"date":"2016-04-11T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/04\/11\/new-infographics-break-down-gender-in-screenplays-and-its-about-what-youd-expect\/"},"modified":"2016-04-11T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:06:00","slug":"new-infographics-break-down-gender-in-screenplays-and-its-about-what-youd-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/04\/11\/new-infographics-break-down-gender-in-screenplays-and-its-about-what-youd-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"New infographics break down gender in screenplays&#8230; and it&#8217;s about what you&#8217;d expect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polygraph.cool\/films\/\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-oFC2sL783E0\/Vwv0kfViltI\/AAAAAAAACQQ\/pfflsPXNz6ks_s-0uyUOf0k2c3zvYP4gg\/s400\/xmengender.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Late last week, Hanah Anderson and Matt Daniels released <a href=\"http:\/\/polygraph.cool\/films\/\">a study on <i>Polygraph<\/i> breaking down the dialogue<\/a> of over 2000 major screenplays by the gender and age of the actors. If you&#8217;ve followed any of the other news about representation in film for the last few years, the results should come as no surprise: it&#8217;s men all the way down, and older women are especially absent.<\/p>\n<p><i>Polygraph<\/i> bills the study as the largest demographic breakdown of film ever undertaken, and its scope certainly helps make the point. Among the 2000 screenplays dissected, over 75% give a strong majority of their dialogue to men. Only <i>eight<\/i> screeplays feature all-women speaking roles \u2013 a number even that&#8217;s more troubling in comparison to the 304 scripts with only men. Age breakdowns are similarly frustrating, with roles increasing for men as they age and decreasing for women.<\/p>\n<p>To make the point, the authors included a separate list of statistics just for Disney movies. Even in <i>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/i>, a movie noted for its progressive gender representation, men get 72% of the dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>As with other tests and measurements, this isn&#8217;t an indication of whether a movie is a good or morally acceptable. It also isn&#8217;t wholly reflective of individual movies: men have a majority of the dialogue in <i>Kill Bill<\/i>, but the movie has an exceptional cast of women. But it&#8217;s statistical confirmation that, on the whole, women (and older women) are still disproportionately out of the spotlight.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last week, Hanah Anderson and Matt Daniels released a study on Polygraph breaking down the dialogue of over 2000 major screenplays by the gender and age of the actors. If you&#8217;ve followed any of the other news about representation in film for the last few years, the results should come as no surprise: it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[86,212],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-controversial","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}