Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper examines Buster Keaton's much‐maligned Columbia shorts (1939–41) through the lens of late 1930s ‘old‐time’ slapstick revivalism. Mobilizing the concept of ‘mis‐remembrance’ (adapted from Barbara Myerhoff), the paper begins by considering how, by the late 1930s, Keaton was nostalgically misidentified as a protégé of the Keystone studios, mistakenly thought of as a veteran of slapstick's ‘pie and chase’ days of the early 1910s. It then argues that transformations in Keaton's late comic form are best seen in the light of the same process, a mis‐remembrance that assimilated Keaton's performances to the throwback style of Sennett‐era knockabout. Finally, the paper locates the origins of that nostalgia in changes in small‐town and rural cultures in 1930s America, arguing that the retrospective cast of Depression‐era regional cultures created a space in which residual forms, like early film slapstick, could still be enjoyed for their ‘old‐time’ appeal.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".