As I prepared my doctoral thesis on what a network-based approach can add to our understanding of the narrative marginalisation of women in mainstream Hollywood cinema, I developed this repo as a set of supplementary materials that I could refer to in the thesis for the code and data.

I prepared the materials in the form of R notebooks, which R users can run themselves, and HTML versions of those notebooks. I focused on recreating the kind of pipeline that I used after collecting character interaction data to read those data into R and summarise and visualise them. I also reproduced the analysis in a paper I published in Feminist Media Studies analysing the distribution of dialogue in the film Wonder Woman (2017). That paper serves as a nice intro to my research, but didn’t provide any data or reproducible code.

Here are the notebooks I created:

Next steps:

• I will add a notebook containing the implementation of the dynamic narrative centrality measure I have presented at a number of recent conferences. See this blog post.
• I will add the remaining data I have collected throughout my thesis. See movienetdata.
• I will improve the code and package-ify everything I’ve done to make it easier to use. See charinet.

Let me know if I can be of any help.

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