Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Date of Degree
2-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Program
Linguistics
Advisor
Rivka Levitan
Subject Categories
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Film and Media Studies | Linguistics
Keywords
gender and film, language features by gender
Abstract
The project analyzes how language is used differently in movie reviews based on both the gender of the author of the review as well as the gender of the director of the reviewed film. In doing so, it aims to gain a better understanding of what contexts evoke a typically “masculine” use of language vs. a typically “feminine” use of language within the genre of film criticism, and what implications this has for the state of the film criticism with respect to gender. The results of this study seem to indicate that a critic’s language use takes on the characteristics typical of the other gender when “writing about” a person (or the work of a person) of the same gender, and vice-versa.
Recommended Citation
Kadish, Matthew, "Gender-Informed Features of Film Reviews: A Statistical Linguistic Analysis" (2022). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/4667
Included in
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Film and Media Studies Commons, Linguistics Commons