发表机构
UC Berkeley; Bowdoin College（加州大学伯克利分校; 鲍登学院）
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本研究开发角色识别计算流程，分析224部热门动画电影，发现其性别代表性与真人电影的差异，女性角色反派占比未降且同框场景更多。
AI 中文摘要
动画电影通常以儿童为目标受众，是文化传递的重要载体，而此前对这类电影中性别代表性的大规模实证研究，大多聚焦于统计演员阵容的性别构成，而非采用更精细的工具（如评估角色在总放映时长中的可见度）。本研究开发了一套用于识别动画电影中角色的计算流程，并将其应用于224部热门动画电影的语料库，以检验多项关于性别代表性的假设。研究发现，1980至2025年间，动画电影中女性角色的整体代表性与真人电影大致相当，但人类角色的性别代表性差异显著——女性与女孩的占比远高于非人类角色，而非人类角色多为男性。与过往针对迪士尼的研究结论相反，本研究未发现动画电影中女性角色在反派角色中的占比下降，且女性与女孩角色共同出现的场景，比同期真人电影中的同类角色多得多。
英文摘要
Animated films--often developed with an audience of children in mind--are an important vector for enculturation, and empirical work that has examined the representation of gender at scale in these films has largely focused on counting the gender composition of the cast rather than deploying a more fine-grained instrument (such as assessing the visibility of those characters in overall screentime). In this work, we develop a computational pipeline for recognizing animated characters in these films, and use it to test several hypotheses about gender representation in a corpus of 224 popular animated movies. We find that while the overall representation of female characters in animated films largely tracks with those of live-action films (over the period 1980-2025), we see stark differences between the representation of human characters (much greater representation among women and girls) and non-humans (largely male). Contrary to past work on Disney, we do not see female characters declining in antagonist roles in animated films, and characters who are women and girls are much more likely to share scenes together than their live action contemporaneous counterparts.
