Gender Stereotypes in Hollywood Movies and Their Evolution over Time: Insights from Network Analysis

The present analysis of more than 180,000 sentences from movie plots across the period 1940 to 2019 emphasizes how gender stereotypes are expressed through cultural products society. By applying a network word co-occurrence networks and using novel method identifying story tropes, we demonstrate that exist in Hollywood movies. An specific paths words reflecting various domains show dynamic changes some these stereotypical associations. Our results suggest complex nature. Specifically, whereas male characters appear be associated with diversity themes movies, female seem predominantly theme romance. Although associations physical beauty marriage declining over time, sexual relationships weddings increasing. application cognitive science methods can enable nuanced investigation textual data.