Sentences with phrase «male central characters»

About 77 percent of the books boys check out have only male central characters, 14 percent have female central characters, and 8 percent have both male and female.

«If popular books have more male central characters than unpopular books, then the books which kids actually read, and which presumably shape their understandings of gender, may be even more disproportionately male than scholars realized.»

«In particular, boys in fifth grade almost only check out books with male central characters.»

Not exact matches

It makes the argument that its central character (played by Rooney Mara) was at least as important to Jesus (Joaquin Phoenix) as his male disciples.

Once again, the central characters were male, notably limned with aching empathy, especially in dealing with physical and emotional bullies, that I wonder would be seen in the work of a male filmmaker.

But there are also some important differences: Biff Grimes (Cagney) lacks Jim Corbett's gift for dominating the events of his own life; women have far greater importance here, with the title character (Rita Hayworth) and Amy (Olivia DeHavilland) being the central forces of the film; male friendship is complicated by betrayals and delusions (here the Jack Carson character is the traitor, while the unfortunate Grimes is rather like the Carson character in Gentleman Jim).

The central character is Kathryn Graham (the «extremely overrated» Meryl Streep), the owner of the Washington Post, and the sole female at the table of white males on the paper's board of directors.

Previous studies found ratios of male - to - female central characters in picture books of 1.5:1 to 2:1.

This time, though, her central character is male, and the heartbreaking drama shifts from Chains» domestic town houses to graphically described bloody battlefields.

I don't need to yell about how annoying it is for the central female character to be defined in the title of the story by the primary male figure in her life!

In interviews leading up to the game's release, director Hajime Tabata said the game's all - male central cast allowed them to tell a story about platonic male friendship, in which its characters care for each other and confide in one another — but, you know, in a strictly heterosexual way, dude.

The more controversial part of the interview contains Bayonetta herself; the studio is, Inaba suggests, thinking about replacing her with another central character - possibly male.