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War Stories – or why I make videos about old soldiers.

2006· book-chapter· en· W149972224 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Catherine Elwes

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of the Arts London Research Online (University of the Arts London) · 2006
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGender, Security, and Conflict
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEthosMasculinityNarrativeHEROMythologyThe artsStorytellingHistoryExhibitionArt historyArtVisual artsSociologyGender studiesLiteratureLawPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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Elwes' essay in this edited volume was a theoretical development of a body of video work which investigated masculinity as it crystallises and dissolves within the praxis of the military and the emblematic image of the war hero. Beginning with a video entitled The Liaison Officer, 1997 (funded by Southern Arts and re-screened in February 2006 at the Imperial War Museum), Elwes discussed the ethos of my early feminist work and examined the military through the microcosm of a familial relationship. In the Southern Arts funded The Boy Scout Soldier (2000-02, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster; Mead Gallery, Warwick and Gallery 44 in Toronto) and Scars: Paul’s Story (2004) (shown in ‘Out of Conflict’, ArtSway, New Forest and Lethaby Gallery, UAL) Elwes proposed personal testaments as a counter-narrative to the official histories, what Benjamin called the ‘narratives of the victorious’. The balancing of histories and the exploration of family myths from both sides of the Axis/Allies confrontation was at the root of Scars: The Six Lives of Erich Ackermann 2005, (these works formed part of ACE touring exhibition, ‘Out of Conflict’ with Cornford & Cross: ArtSway, New Forest; Lethaby Gallery, UAL; Hat Factory, Luton) Elwes' practice led to the theoretical paper analysing the nature of conflict in relation to masculinity drawing on the work of Mansfield, Betterton and Cixous in order to investigate her own investment in the work as a gendered videomaker. She developed early writings by Rozsika Parker on images of men made by women to suggest ways in which the image of the warrior can in fact, harbour aspects of femininity that make the totalising association of masculinity with institutional militarism less secure. She found echoes of Parker’s observations of women’s investment in ‘invalid’ or war-damaged males as a means of equalising traditional power relations between men and women.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.057
Threshold uncertainty score0.192

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.004
Scholarly communication0.0050.011
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0570.014

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.065
GPT teacher head0.293
Teacher spread0.228 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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