The authors of contemporary Italian literature on the big and small screen. A quantitative analysis

Abstract

Italian literature entertains a long-standing relation with cinema and television. While several analyses have investigated details of singular phenomena, a broader quantitative analysis of the context and the dynamics characterizing such relation is missing. In this article we present an open dataset created from Wikidata and IMDb, and we present an exploratory data analysis to answer questions about TV and movie productions, writers’ contributions to screenplay, and gender balance.

Keywords

• data analysis
• cinema studies
• literary studies
• wikidata