Minories al cinema espanyol del segle XXI. Observacions a partir d’una anàlisi de contingut de personatges
ISSN: 2014-0444
Year of publication: 2024
Volume: 41
Issue: 1
Pages: 87-113
Type: Article
More publications in: Comunicació: revista de recerca i anàlisi
Abstract
This research study analyzes the representation of minorities, diversity and gender in Spanish cinema of the 21st century based on a content analysis carried out on 129 films and more than 3,000 characters. To carry out this analysis, we used a previously validated code book focused on evaluating gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality and functional diversity. The data prove that characters belonging to minority groups are underrepresented and that there is a higher percentage of male than female characters. Minority characters, however, tend to have a slightly higher narrative weight. These observations differ according to the gender of the person who has directed the film and the release date, with women directors and more recent works tending to give more weight to non-majority characters.