Means streets and bloody shores: toward a spatial theory of the Mediterranean noir
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1998, the late Jean-Claude Izzo published an essay titled 'Le bleu et le noir' in the weekly news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur. The piece opened with the following words: 'In the beginning is the Book. And that moment in which Cain kills his brother Abel. In the blood of this fratricide, the Mediterranean gives us the first noir novel' (Izzo, 2013 Izzo, J.-C. 2013. Garlic, mint, & sweet Basil. Essays on marseilles, Mediterranean cuisine, and noir fiction. New York: Europa Editions. [Google Scholar]). With this statement, the author suggested a powerful hermeneutical possibility: the recasting of the noir discourse (as an intertextual and transartistic practice) in a fashion that would include an expanded genealogy and an extended geography, well beyond its known Anglofone paths. In the last decade, film scholars have embarked in a profound reevaluation of the anglocentrism of the noir canon in a fashion that is consonant with Izzo's position (Spicer 2007 Spicer, A., Ed. 2007. European Film Noir. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Google Scholar], Fay and Nieland, 2010 Fay, J., and J. Nieland. 2010. Film noir: Hard-boiled modernity and the cultures of globalization. London: Routledge. [Google Scholar], Pettey and Palmer 2014a Pettey, H.B., and R. Barton Palmer, Eds. 2014a. Film Noir. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar] and 2014b Pettey, H.B., and R. Barton Palmer, Eds. 2014b. International Film Noir. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Google Scholar]), going so far as to postulate the existence of a contemporary 'global noir' arising from 'transnational filmmaking, cross-cultural influences, and the idea of global culture.' (Desser, 2012 Desser, D. 2012. Global noir: Genre film in the age of transnationalism. In Film Genre Reader IV, ed. B.K. Grant, 628–48. Austin: University of Texas Press. [Google Scholar], 628). This article proposes a theory of space that sheds light on the cultural specificity of the Mediterranean noir, and that addresses the submerged, repressed histories of the lands touched, and thereby linked, by this complicated sea.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".