{"id":68805,"date":"2016-05-12T10:16:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T15:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=68805"},"modified":"2016-05-07T14:13:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T19:13:04","slug":"database-enables-users-to-choose-films-based-on-gender-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/05\/12\/database-enables-users-to-choose-films-based-on-gender-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Database Enables Users to Choose Films Based on Gender Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Polygraph<\/a>‘s Hanah Anderson and Matt Daniels undertook a\u00a0massive analysis<\/a> of the\u00a0dialogue of approximately 2,000 films, counting those characters who spoke\u00a0at least 100 words. With the data, they’ve producing\u00a0a series of visuals that powerfully illustrate male dominance in the American film industry.<\/p>\n

We’ve seen data like this before and it tells the same disturbing story: across the industry, whatever the sub-genre, men and their voices take center stage.<\/p>\n

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\nThey have some other nice insights, too, like the silencing of women as they get older and the enhancing of men’s older voices.<\/p>\n

But knowledge is power. My favorite thing about this project is that it enables any of us — absolutely anyone — to look up the gender imbalance in dialogue in any of those 2,000 movies. This means that you can know ahead of time how well women’s and men’s voices are represented and decide whether to watch. The dialogue in Adaptation,<\/em> for example, is 70% male; Good Will Hunting<\/em>, 85% male;\u00a0The Revenant<\/em>, 100% male.<\/p>\n

We could even let the site choose the movies for us.\u00a0Anderson and Daniels include a convenient dot graph that spans the breadth of inclusion, with each dot representing a movie. You can just click on the distribution that appeals to you and choose a movie from there. Clueless, Gosford Park,<\/em> and The Wizard of Oz<\/em> all come in at a perfect 50\/50 split. Or, you can\u00a0select a\u00a0decade, genre, and gender balance and get suggestions.<\/p>\n

Polygraph has enabled\u00a0us to put our money where our principles are.\u00a0If enough of us decide that we won’t\u00a0buy\u00a0any movie that tilts too far male, it would put pressure on filmmakers to make movies that better reflected real life. This data makes it possible to do just that.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Polygraph‘s Hanah Anderson and Matt Daniels undertook a\u00a0massive analysis of the\u00a0dialogue of approximately 2,000 films, counting those characters who spoke\u00a0at least 100 words. With the data, they’ve producing\u00a0a series of visuals that powerfully illustrate male dominance in the American film industry. We’ve seen data like this before and it tells the same disturbing story: across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":68806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2098,129,343,274],"class_list":["post-68805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-media","tag-tvmovies","tag-methodsuse-of-data"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2016\/05\/5.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68805"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68812,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68805\/revisions\/68812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}