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Record W1548889758

A Desire for the Real: The Power of Film in The Englishman’s Boy

2009· article· en· W1548889758 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Robert Zacharias

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in Canadian Literature · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSouth Asian Cinema and Culture
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMovie theaterHollywoodSubjectivityPower (physics)Interpretation (philosophy)Argument (complex analysis)StudioLiteratureArtAestheticsHistoryArt historyVisual artsPhilosophyEpistemology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Midway through Guy Vanderhaeghe’s novel The Englishman’s Boy, Hollywood studio head Damon Ira Chance speaks about the power of cinema and announces that he intends to harness the new medium to rewrite the story of the Cypress Hills Massacre of 1873 as a mythic history of the American west. Much of The Englishman’s Boy revolves around the question Chance raises about the role media plays in our interpretation of the world, and the novel warns against the propagandistic nature of film. Read through Stanley Cavell’s argument that film can access an aspect of reality unavailable to other media by addressing the deep desire to overcome our subjectivity, the novel suggests that film wields an overwhelming power that is inherently violent because cinema “overcomes” the viewer’s subjectivity by destroying evidence of the artist in filmic representations of the world.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.413
Threshold uncertainty score0.821

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0260.027
Scholarly communication0.0120.004
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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 head0.035
GPT teacher head0.277
Teacher spread0.242 · 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
GenreEmpirical

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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