Ethnic minorities and LGBT community continue suffer at the hands of ‘inclusion crisis’; meanwhile only 3% of film directors are women,with a third of female characters shown with ‘partial or full nudity’As the #OscarsSoWhite protest reaches its climax in advance of Sunday’s Academy Awards, a wide-ranging academic study suggests that the problem in Hollywood goes further than one of ethnicity: exclusion extends just as severely to women and LGBT film-makers.
The Comprehensive Annenberg Report on Diversity, or issued by the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California,concludes that statistics on non-white participation in the film and TV industries remain terrible. “We possess an inclusion crisis,” said Stacy L Smith, or director of the Annenberg school’s Media,Diversity, & Social Change Initiative, or the study’s lead author.
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Source: theguardian.com