Bibliographic record
Abstract
At the beginning of Strapless (1988), written and directed by David Hare, a woman (played by American actress Blair Brown) meets a man (played by Swiss actor Bruno Ganz) in a Catholic church somewhere in Europe (the sequence was filmed in Portugal) (Figure 1). This chance encounter leads to an obsessive relationship in which Lillian, a doctor in a cashstrapped London hospital, finds her life turned upside down by Raymond's unpredictable comings and goings dictated by his dubious financial activities. In a key sequence, Hare uses the American doctor to express his own dismay at the state of contemporary Britain, in a speech to her colleagues that blames the crisis at the hospital on the abandonment of national traditions by a government that places economic restraint above human need. However, her lucidity and independence are deeply disturbed by the personal needs that attract her to Raymond. As in much of Hare's work for theater, television, and film, social and political beliefs come up against the irreducible, and often destructive, power of passion and desire (see Chapter 6). His characters also often feel uncomfortably out of place, and the casting of foreign actors in this film reinforces the disorienting effect of Lillian's affair with Raymond. At the same time, the presence of well-known European and Hollywood actors (Bridget Fonda also appears as Lillian's sister) conforms to the commercial logic of the contemporary global media environment in which producers have to sell their films in different national markets. Yet, ironically, the presence of foreign actors and characters is itself a sign of the film's “Britishness.”
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.484 | 0.296 |
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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
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".