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Where Are the Women?: movies that represent women well are just as likely to be profitable as movies that don’t, and are less risky as business propositions
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My Where Are the Women? project, analyzing the films of 2015 for their representation of women, is now finished, and I’ve crunched some numbers.
Get an introduction to this analysis here. You can examine a comprehensive spreadsheet of the details about these 153 films here.
see also:
• only 22% of 2015’s movies had female protagonists
• best and worst representations of women on film in 2015 (and the average Watw score for the year)
• critics are slightly more likely to rate a film highly if it represents women well
• mainstream moviegoers are not turned off by films with female protagonists
One of the excuses we hear frequently for the lack of women’s presence and women’s stories on the big screen is that Hollywood is a business, and if it made business sense, we’d have more movies about women. But as we’ll see here, movies with female protagonists and movies that »
- MaryAnn Johanson
new and ongoing dvd & streaming releases, Us/Can/UK, from Apr 11-12
12 April 2016 2:24 PM, PDT
A simple listing, duplicated from the homepage, of new releases and other stuff currently available, for the benefit of those playing along by RSS or keeping up via the Daily Digest emails (sign up here).
new Us/Can Apr 12 streaming only The Invitation Joy The 5th Wave Krampus Ride Along 2 Decay Mr. Right Temps dvd/streaming The Forest new UK Apr 11 streaming only Black Mountain Poets The Invitation Sisters Star Wars: The Force Awakens Krampus Couple in a Hole dvd/streaming Victor Frankenstein 90 Minutes in Heaven Chronic
more recent releases Us/Can streaming only Anomalisa Boom Bust Boom The Brainwashing of My Dad Difret Glassland Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts Oscar Nominated Live-Action Shorts A Perfect Day Theeb Ukraine Is Not a Brothel The Wave (Bølgen) What Happened, Miss Simone? Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom Anesthesia Emelie Phoenix The Program The Revenant Body Jane Wants a Boyfriend »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Where Are the Women?: mainstream moviegoers are not turned off by films with female protagonists
12 April 2016 1:27 PM, PDT
My Where Are the Women? project, analyzing the films of 2015 for their representation of women, is now finished, and I’ve crunched some numbers.
Get an introduction to this analysis here. You can examine a comprehensive spreadsheet of the details about these 153 films here.
see also:
• only 22% of 2015’s movies had female protagonists
• best and worst representations of women on film in 2015 (and the average Watw score for the year)
• critics are slightly more likely to rate a film highly if it represents women well
• movies that represent women well are just as likely to be profitable as movies that don’t, and are less risky as business propositions
I’ve looked at how critics react to movies that represent women well (spoiler: they are slightly more likely to rate such films highly). Now let’s look at how audiences react to movies that treat women as fully human people. »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Where Are the Women?: critics are slightly more likely to rate a film highly if it represents women well
12 April 2016 6:54 AM, PDT
My Where Are the Women? project, analyzing the films of 2015 for their representation of women, is now finished, and I’ve crunched some numbers.
Get an introduction to this analysis here. You can examine a comprehensive spreadsheet of the details about these 153 films here.
see also:
• only 22% of 2015’s movies had female protagonists
• best and worst representations of women on film in 2015 (and the average Watw score for the year)
• mainstream moviegoers are not turned off by films with female protagonists
• movies that represent women well are just as likely to be profitable as movies that don’t, and are less risky as business propositions
Here’s what it looks like when we compare a film’s Watw score to its Rotten Tomatoes score:
(Hover over a dot for the film’s Watw score, title, and Rt score. Click here to see the chart in a separate zoomable window.)
There »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Where Are the Women?: best and worst representations of women on film in 2015
11 April 2016 3:39 PM, PDT
My Where Are the Women? project, analyzing the films of 2015 for their representation of women, is now finished, and I’ve crunched some numbers.
Get an introduction to this analysis here. You can examine a comprehensive spreadsheet of the details about these 153 films here.
see also:
• only 22% of 2015’s movies had female protagonists
• critics are slightly more likely to rate a film highly if it represents women well
• mainstream moviegoers are not turned off by films with female protagonists
• movies that represent women well are just as likely to be profitable as movies that don’t, and are less risky as business propositions
Here’s what the distribution of Where Are the Women? scores looks like. As you can see, the majority of films did not depict women as people in their own right, with stories of their own to be told:
(Hover over a line for the film title and Watw score. »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Where Are the Women?: only 22% of 2015’s movies had female protagonists
11 April 2016 2:28 PM, PDT
My Where Are the Women? project, analyzing the films of 2015 for their representation of women, is now finished, and I’ve crunched some numbers.
Get an introduction to this analysis here. You can examine a comprehensive spreadsheet of the details about these 153 films here.
see also:
• best and worst representations of women on film in 2015 (and the average Watw score for the year)
• critics are slightly more likely to rate a film highly if it represents women well
• mainstream moviegoers are not turned off by films with female protagonists
• movies that represent women well are just as likely to be profitable as movies that don’t, and are less risky as business propositions
Here’s how it breaks down for simple, basic representation of women onscreen.
Of 153 wide releases in the Us in 2015, only 34 had female protagonists or an ensemble that was primarily female. That’s a smidge over 22 percent… »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Where Are the Women?: crunching the numbers
11 April 2016 1:41 PM, PDT
• only 22% of 2015’s movies had female protagonists
• best and worst representations of women on film in 2015 (and the average Watw score for the year)
• critics are slightly more likely to rate a film highly if it represents women well
• mainstream moviegoers are not turned off by films with female protagonists
• movies that represent women well are just as likely to be profitable as movies that don’t, and are less risky as business propositions
The Where Are the Women? project was designed to drill deep down into the films of 2015 in order to determine how well — or how poorly — they represented women. The project has now come to its end, and you can examine the final ranking here. The ranking includes 270 films released in the Us, Canada, and the UK, in both limited and wide release (including every wide-release North American film and most of the UK wide-release films). The »
- MaryAnn Johanson
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