James Tweedie,<i>The Age of New Waves: Art Cinema and the Staging of Globalization</i>.
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Abstract
Judging by the capacity audience at a workshop on ‘The world cinema turn in film studies’ at the 2015 Society for Cinema Studies Conference in Montréal, debates around ‘global art cinema’ continue to be of keen interest to scholars. No doubt many had gathered to hear Dudley Andrew, who unfortunately made a last-minute cancellation. By imagining world cinema as more nuanced and multidimensional than it has traditionally been categorized, Andrew suggests in his 2004 essay, ‘An atlas of world cinema’, that ‘a wider conception of national image culture is around the corner, prophesied by phrases like “rooted cosmopolitanism” and “critical regionalism”’. 1 James Tweedie’s The Age of New Waves: Art Cinema and the Staging of Globalization exemplifies this new conception, connecting the core aesthetic principles of the French new wave to the new waves of China and Taiwan. Rather than thinking of the French new wave as an origin, the author sees the three cinemas as creating a feedback loop without hierarchy. This theory attempts to coalesce western and nonwestern cinemas within the same canon, disregarding national, cultural and political differences. Tweedie establishes globalization as the link that connects these cinemas, in particular the ‘urban, youth and consumer revolutions’ that formed all of them to one degree or another. In many ways this well-researched and theorized volume succeeds in breaking down old, Eurocentric taxonomies of film studies as well as bringing a fresh and welcome perspective to defining ‘world cinema’, a critical debate that continues to build interest.
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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 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.016 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.003 |
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".