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About this paper
Aresh Dadlani, Vi Vo, Ayushi Khemka, Sophie Talalay Harvey, Aigul Kantoro Kyzy, Pete Jones, Deb Verhoeven
This survey provides the first systematic review of 51 papers applying network analysis to the film industry, categorizing research by node types such as people, films, and companies. It maps the field's evolution from methodological illustration to substantive inquiry, revealing a dominant focus on the US film industry and a need for more multi-modal and inequality-focused studies.
Key insights
- The field has evolved from primarily using film data to illustrate network theory to explicitly applying network science to understand the film industry as an object of study.
- Research is disproportionately focused on the US film industry, with limited studies on diverse national film industries and an uneven scholarly engagement between Minority and Majority Worlds.
- There is a need for greater methodological sophistication, including multi-modal network analysis, to capture complex interdependencies, and a more relational perspective on inequalities within the industry.
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