{"id":5279,"date":"2015-03-05T10:33:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T15:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:21:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:21:20","slug":"unsurprising-stats-hollywood-lacks-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2015\/03\/05\/unsurprising-stats-hollywood-lacks-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsurprising Stats: Hollywood Lacks Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following the whitest Academy Awards in nearly 20 years<\/a>, UCLA\u2019s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies<\/a> released its 2015 Hollywood Diversity Report<\/a>. Sociologist and center Director Darnell Hunt<\/a> described the findings to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>: \u201cHollywood is not progressing at the same rate as America is diversifying.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study, which surveyed the top 200 worldwide box office films and 1,105 television series in 2012 and 2013, found that racial minorities and women were substantially underrepresented in both acting and directing roles. Those films with at least 30% diversity, however, did best in the worldwide box office tallies.<\/p>\n

Study co-author Ana-Christina Ramon<\/a> believes these numbers show that, \u201caudiences, regardless of their race, are clamoring for more diverse content.\u201d So what\u2019s the holdup?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a high-risk industry,\u201d says Hunt. \u201cPeople want to surround themselves with collaborators they\u2019re comfortable with, which tends to mean people they\u2019ve networked with—and nine times out of 10, they\u2019ll look similar. It reproduced the same opportunities for the same kind of people: You\u2019re surrounding yourself with a bunch of white men to feel comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunt suggests that emerging digital platforms like Netflix and Amazon could create more opportunities for on-screen diversity. Still, he is hesitant to make grand claims about progress: \u201cIt\u2019s getting better, but it\u2019s not getting better fast enough. And it\u2019s still a big problem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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