Hollywood and Gender: A Quantitative Analysis of Movie Dialogues

Mack Campbell
mack.campbell@pitt.edu
04/25/2023

Overview

This project will quantify how male and female characters are represented in the movies of the Cornell Movie Dialogue Corpus, highlighting both similarities and difference as they arise in each interaction. The corpus has movies from 1927 through 2010 so I will also look at diachronic variation.

Data

The data come from the Cornell Movie-Dialogue Corpus and can be found in this repo here. The corpus has a README to help understand its structure and contents.

Directory

• final_report.md is the write-up of my final report
• data/ houses the original Cornell Movie-Dialogue Corpus Data
• new_data/ contains my re-working of the data as .csv files
• data_visualization/ has .png files of all graphs
• dataframe_notebooks/ has .jnb files cleaning and working with the different data sets
• analysis_notebooks/ contains .jnb files compiling and analyzing the data
• LICENSE.md is the license for sharing the data and code in this repo
• project_plan.md is my initial project plan
• progress_report.md contains my progress on the project throughout the semester

Guestbook

You can visit my guestbook here.