USING DATA SCIENCE TO UNDERSTAND GENDER GAP IN THE FILM INDUSTRY
Dima Kagan, Thomas Chesney, and Michael Fire
- Titles: 5,487,394
- Full-Length Movies: 505,380
- Actor: 24,496,030
- Actress: 15,549,871
Movies Data
Data SCIENCE
Network Science
Constructing Movie Social Networks
Constructing Movie Social Networks
Constructing Movie Social Networks
W=W+1
Challenges
Am I to understand you're still hanging
around with Dr. Emmett Brown, McFly?
Marty McFly
Lorraine McFly
George McFly
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Subtitles
Cast Data
Cast Data
THE SCULLY EFFECT
- Nearly two-thirds (63%) of women who are familiar with Dana Scully say she increased their belief in the importance of STEM.
- Among women who are familiar with Scully’s character, half (50%) say Scully increased their interest in STEM.
- Entertainment media is influential in shaping life choices
THE SCULLY EFFECT: I WANT TO BELIEVE IN STEM Research by 21st Century Fox, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, and J. Walter Thompson Intelligence
What can we do about it?
Relationship triangles
Change in Relationship triangles over time
Top-10 Roles Distribution
BECHDEL TEST
- The movie has to have at least two women in it,
- who talk to each other,
- about something besides a man
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Subtitles
Cast Data
Cast Data
Features
Network Features
Vertex Feature
Gender Representation
Movie Feature
Actor Features
Bechdel Test Classifier
| Feature | Feature Importance |
|---|---|
| Percent of Triangles of 2 Women | 0.15797 |
| Percent of Triangles of 0 Women | 0.14502 |
| Females in Top 10 Roles | 0.13659 |
| Percent of Triangles of 3 Women | 0.12058 |
| Triangles of 3 Women | 0.0743 |
Bechdel Test Classifier
ALTERNATIVE TEST
0.8< \frac{TotalDegree_F}{TotalDegree_M} <1.2
- It is easy to pass the Bechdel-Test.
- We found that 55.8% of movies the total degree of male characters is at least twice as high as female characters.
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A good test could be:
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Sadly today only 12% of all movies pass this test
Thank you questions?
DIMA KAGAN (Ben-Gurion University),
THOMAS CHESNEY (Nottingham University),
MICHAEL FIRE (BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY)
