Tag Archives: Australian cinema

The hexagonal logo for the package. Contains the colours and piping shrike emblem of the South Australian flag, along with the package name.

A Rory by any other name… Introducing the southaussienames R package

We recently began the process of investigating the impact of gender in our new dataset of Australian film credits and immediately struck an unexpected problem. In addition to the challenges we already anticipated, such as the well-known limitations of trying to approximate gender based on first names there was another, less immediately apparent dilemma. For […]

Testing the ‘10% Rule’

A research paper “Understanding the dynamics between the United States and Australian film markets: testing the ‘10% rule’” by Kinomatics members Vejune Zemaityte, Deb Verhoeven and Bronwyn Coate has been recently published in the Studies in Australasian Cinema Journal. In this article, we compare Australia and the US as markets for American movies against the […]