The opportunity gap is only widening in Hollywood, writes KadinBurnett for WMC's the_fbomb
. It’s also worth mentioning that the study didn’t study movies released on streaming services and instead focused on theatrical releases.Celluloid Ceiling
,” and conducted by Dr. Martha Lauzen, founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University, the study interrogated 25 years of data and examined directors, cinematographers, writers, editors, and producers. The study found that in 1998, women accounted for 17% of the directors, producers, editors, writers, and cinematographers working on the top 250 grossing U.S. films. In 2022, women accounted for 24% of those titles.
Though “The Celluloid Ceiling” illustrates a more optimistic shift than the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative study, both studies depict an industry still dominated by men — specifically, white men. “Given the number of panels, research reports, and hand-wringing devoted to this issue over the last two and a half decades, one would expect more substantial gains,”.
Dr. Lauzen raises a troubling point: How much more hell can be raised before the industry begins to shift? One would think that in the wake of
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