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Record W1966527367 · doi:10.1353/mdr.2006.0034

Performing the Edwardian Ideal: David Mamet and The Winslow Boy

2005· article· en· W1966527367 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Irène Morra

Bibliographic record

VenueModern Drama · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicCultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSubject (documents)DramaArtLiteratureCharacter (mathematics)Ideal (ethics)Performance artArt historyHistoryPhilosophyEpistemology

Abstract

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When The Winslow Boy, with screenplay and direction by David Mamet, premiered in 1999, critics scrambled to account for Mamet's uncharacteristic choice of subject and setting. Variously termed a costume piece (Null), Mer-chant-Ivory fare (Macnab), and an Edwardian drama (James 22), the film was consistently noted to be far removed from Mamet's apparently typical "hide-and-seek scenarios featuring characters who fire off tough-guy, staccato dialogue at machine-gun velocity" (Sipe) or "lowlifes and con men, gamblers and thieves" (Ebert). Although Mamet himself acknowledges that the film marks a "departure," he qualifies that observation with the statement that he is departing only "from some of [his] other work" (qtd. in Graham 231). Indeed, while critics in one breath note the vast difference between the subject of The Winslow Boy and that of Mamet's films and plays, they tend to search for and ultimately assert a thematic or linguistic emphasis consistent with that of Mamet's work. That similarity has been seen to lie in the film's apparent interest in "whether an offscreen crime really took place" (Ebert), in its use of "trademark" Mamettian ellipses and overlapping dialogue (Kelleher), and in its dissection of assumed social and domestic values (McIntire-Strasburg).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.858
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.036
GPT teacher head0.269
Teacher spread0.233 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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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