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Record W1982503475 · doi:10.1177/1367877908096054

`Mexican' labor in the Hollywood imaginary

2008· article· en· W1982503475 on OpenAlexaff
Sean Brayton

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Cultural Studies · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMedia Studies and Communication
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Lethbridge
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHollywoodThe ImaginaryRacializationBourgeoisieCitizenshipSociologyGender studiesNarrativeMythologyWhite (mutation)AestheticsRace (biology)Political scienceArtPoliticsArt historyLawLiteraturePsychoanalysisPsychology

Abstract

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This paper explores the manifold ways in which `Mexican' labor functions as a representational resource in three contemporary Hollywood texts: the films Friends with Money (2006) and Transamerica (2005), as well as the television sitcom Arrested Development (2003—2006). While the narratives partake in the racialization of labor in the US, they also visualize types of work and workers that often pass unacknowledged in white bourgeois culture. They rely on similar images of Hispanics as domestic, agricultural, service, and construction workers to a variety of diegetic ends, not all of which align with conservative xenophobic agendas. Although Hispanics are often depicted as self-identical foreigners irrespective of national origin and citizenship status racialized images of labor may be used to politically question mythologies of white bourgeois normativity.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.449
Threshold uncertainty score0.244

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.091
GPT teacher head0.414
Teacher spread0.323 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
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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