gender

A framework for the analysis of historical newsreels

Audiovisual news is a critical cultural phenomenon that has been influencing audience worldviews for more than a hundred years. To understand historical trends in multimodal audiovisual news, we need to explore them longitudinally using large sets of …

Quantifying the global film festival circuit: Networks, diversity, and public value creation

Film festivals are a key component in the global film industry in terms of trendsetting, publicity, trade, and collaboration. We present an unprecedented analysis of the international film festival circuit, which has so far remained relatively …

ACS Seminar: A Wider Lens - Australian Camera Workforce Development and Diversity

An industry presentation of the results of recent research report

A wider lens: Australian Camera Workforce Development and Diversity

A Wider Lens is the first comprehensive examination of the workforce, the work model, and the work culture, that constitute Australian film and television camera departments. The study pays particular attention to how social characteristics, such as …

Using Social Network Analysis to Study Gender Inequality in Screen Media Industries

A talk discussing opportunities and challenges in adopting social network analysis in research on gender diversity in the screen media industries.

Controlling for openness in the male-dominated collaborative networks of the global film industry

Studies of gender inequality in film industries have noted the persistence of male domination in creative roles (usually defined as director, producer, writer) and the slow pace of reform. Typical policy remedies are premised on aggregate counts of …

Re-distributing gender in the global film industry: Beyond #MeToo and #MeThree

This article draws on a big cultural dataset of over 130 million global screen times to consider the impact that the gender of a film’s director has on the screening prevalence and geographic spread of new release feature films at the cinema. We …