2023-08-30 01:18:16
At a time when the film “Barbie” was a great success around the world, parity on the screen in 2022 was not yet complete. According to the study, the main and secondary roles held by women still reached their highest level in 16 years (44%). Nevertheless, the percentage of “talking characters” identified as being women has not increased much, being limited to 34.6%, ie 4.7 points more than in 2007 (29.9%). The California study even showed that only 15% of the 100 most popular movies of 2022 featured a balanced cast between 45% and 54.9% of speaking roles.
“It is clear that the entertainment industry has neither the desire nor the motivation to improve casting processes in a way that creates meaningful change for girls and women”said Professor Smith. “The lack of progress is particularly disappointing following decades of activism and advocacy.”she added.
Regarding the representation of various ethnicities, 31 of the popular films in 2022 had main or secondary characters from so-called minority groups. However, this is less important than in 2021, which then counted 37 films with this specificity, but more than in 2007 with 13 films.
The study still highlighted progress for the portrayal of Asian characters, rising from 3.4% in 2007 to 15.9% in 2022. 15 films contained no black or African-American speaking characters, 46 films contained no no speaking Hispanic characters and 34 films contained no speaking Asian characters. “These trends suggest that any improvement for people from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups is limited”Ms. Smith said. “While it’s encouraging to see changes for the main characters and for the Asian community, our invisibility data suggests there’s still more to be done to ensure the diversity that exists in reality is represented in the game. ‘screen.”
Same story for LGBTQ + characters, present in only 2.1% of speaking characters among popular films of 2022 : “Of the 87 LGBTQ+ characters portrayed in 2022, more than half were male and 58.8% were white. In total, 72 films from 2022 didn’t even feature a single LGBTQ+ character and 84 lacked LGBTQ+ girls/women.”we might read in the study.
Disability on screen is still taboo since the study identified only 1.9% of speaking characters.
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