TRANSWORLDING: THE INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN-BORN DIRECTORS ON THE US FILM INDUSTRY

FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2021 - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - ONLINE

Presented by Film and Media Studies.

The final presentation in a series of graduate students presenting on their works in progress. This chapter is the quantitative analysis on whether foreign-born directors show higher film yields than native-born directors in terms of the domestic and international box office, and the number of awards (e.g. Oscars) and award nominations. The study is conducted on a data set collected from multiple sources, and the data set includes about 27 thousand US-produced films released between 1925 and 2018.

This event is free and takes place on Zoom.