Posted on 09/04/2019 9:12:22 AM PDT by EdnaMode
The year of 2018 saw huge strides in diversity and inclusion in film — mainly because of the release of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther and the Warner Bros. rom-com Crazy Rich Asians. Although both features broke ground and were a watershed moment for the Black and Asian communities, it doesn’t mean everything is hunky-dory with the representation of underrepresented and marginalized communities in film. A new report from Professor Stacy L. Smith and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism shows that there has been improvement toward inclusion but the needle could and should be moved more.
The report, which comes shortly after the Inclusion Initiative’s Latinx study with NALIP, took a comprehensive look at film examining 53,178 characters in 1,200 top films from 2007 to 2018. The numbers proved that things are definitely looking up.
In 2018, 39 of the 100 top films had a female in a leading or co-leading role. This is a jump from 2017 when 33 films had a lead or co-lead female actor. It is also a gigantic leap from 2007 when the number was a mere 20
The report also found that in 2018 there were 27 movies with leading or co-leading roles that featured characters from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups. This was another boost from 2017 where there were only 21 films. In addition, the films in the study showed that 11 films featured a female lead from an underrepresented racial/ethnic group compared to just four in 2017, and 11 movies were led by a female actor age 45 or older, versus five in 2017.
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Why don’t they do their own films if they are so worried about this? Why is it whites always have to be the ones who do this?
Who cares what race the actors are in a film? Do you plunk down your $14 in order to keep a running tally for the next 2 hours of how many white, black, brown or yellow actors are in that film? Only race obsessed morons, the kind intent on dividing our country, would bother with this.
and yet then never worry about “under-representation of poor, old, ugly folks ...
Don’t forget the gay Marvel characters.
I was channel surfing last night and happened to land on “Dance Moms” right when some dance teacher was talking about the little girls doing a lesbian lovers’ routine. BARF! Gotta indoctrinate ‘em young. Yes, I changed the channel.
There are lots of poor, old, ugly, toothless regular folk on ID channel. Well, make that the victim families because their film characters are all above 8 on a 10 point scale.
Not judging, just stating facts. I enjoy ID channel.
Virtue signaling convinces the left of its own unimpeachable morals. When push comes to shove, it rejects guilt for any of its wrongdoing and attributes such allegations to conspiracy theories.
Peter Daou, a Democratic strategist and former advisor to Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, tweeted on Monday that Ford will be "attacked, smeared, and demonized" and that people must "BELIEVE WOMEN."
Thanks EdnaMode.
The Sacramento Bee reported that... the California Posse Comitatus Act of 1872... was employed to help catch runaway slaves...
Nigerian singers and Zambia's football team are among those in the boycott.
True. My give-a-damn is broken.
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