{"id":59656,"date":"2023-08-28T15:14:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T22:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=59656"},"modified":"2023-08-28T15:14:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T22:14:19","slug":"a-mixed-bag-when-it-comes-to-diversity-in-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=59656","title":{"rendered":"A Mixed Bag When it Comes to Diversity in Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By<\/span>Peter White<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Despite recent efforts to make the entertainment industry more reflective of the nation as whole, there is still more work to be done.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Can we tell our own stories yet? According to Michael Tran, co-author of the latest\u00a0Hollywood Diversity Report<\/a>, \u201cThe short answer is \u2018No\u2019, I\u2019m afraid.\u201d<\/p>\n

A UCLA sociologist who collects entertainment data and tracks trends, Tran says despite recent efforts to make the entertainment industry more reflective of the nation as whole, there is still more work to be done.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile there has been historic progress on multiple fronts, including shattering several onerous Hollywood myths about diversity, progress has been mixed,\u201d says Tran.<\/p>\n

He notes that over the last 11 years the diversity of screen actors has increased. African Americans, for example, are much more proportionally represented among casts. Still, other groups \u2013 especially Latinx and API communities \u2013 are consistently underrepresented. \u201cAnd this is especially egregious for the Latinx community because they\u2019re consistently the biggest consumers of media,\u201d Tran notes.<\/p>\n

And while casts are growing more diverse, there\u2019s less diversity behind the scenes, where the decision-making happens.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2022, when we looked at the numbers\u2026 we found that women directors are getting more opportunities, but much lower budgets than white male directors,\u201d he says. Women directors are getting shunted into smaller budget comedies specifically for women audiences, while male directors of color are given bigger prestige projects like\u00a0Black Panther<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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