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A Social Network Analysis Approach to Examining Gendered Character Positions in Popular Film Narratives.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	A Social Network Analysis Approach to Examining Gendered Character Positions in Popular Film Narratives./
作者:	Jones, Pete.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
面頁冊數:	178 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-02A.
標題:	Gender studies. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28020680
ISBN:	9798635237069

A Social Network Analysis Approach to Examining Gendered Character Positions in Popular Film Narratives.
Jones, Pete.

A Social Network Analysis Approach to Examining Gendered Character Positions in Popular Film Narratives. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 178 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Manchester (United Kingdom), 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This thesis explores what the relational perspectives and tools of social network analysis can add to our understanding of the marginalisation of women within popular Hollywood film narratives. Despite empirical and theoretical suggestions that the female voice is marginalised in Hollywood cinema, we know very little about how dialogue is distributed in popular cinema, or how these patterns of character interaction structure film narratives. This thesis proposes that a network-based approach can illuminate these questions and operationalise ideas about gendered character positions in popular film narratives. There have been a number of papers proposing network models for narrative analysis in the last decade or so, primarily aimed at literature and plays. The research in this thesis aims to be the first to engage seriously with literature from both film studies and narratology to explore what these methods can add to our toolkit for understanding the dynamics of film texts. Thus, as an interdisciplinary project, the research aims both to illuminate the substantive research questions regarding the gendered positions of characters in popular cinema, as well as to develop and refine network-based approaches to the analysis of narrative texts in general.The thesis develops a method which represents film narratives as character interaction networks by recording each line of dialogue between named speaking characters. Using this method, I construct a corpus of 27 blockbuster films. The thesis develops a number of central arguments through examination of this corpus. Firstly, using character interaction networks to explore popular film texts reveals that the narrative marginalisation of the female voice in mainstream Hollywood cinema is more complex than the current empirical benchmarks based on the distribution of speaking characters. Secondly, through a comparative character network-based analysis of Wonder Woman (2017), Thor (2011) and The Hunger Games (2012), I illustrate that our understanding of "female-led" in popular cinema requires more than simply identifying the presence of "strong female characters", as Hollywood narratives can work to individualise and contain the empowerment of their female protagonists.

ISBN: 9798635237069Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122708
Gender studies.
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Film narratives

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