<i>Boy 7</i> in double exposure: European genre cinema between transnational industry practices and national consumption
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Abstract
This article examines two film adaptations of the same novel as a media strategy that takes advantage of transnational film industry practices and infrastructure in order to produce films for targeted national consumption. In 2015, two film adaptations of the Dutch YA (Young Adult) novel Boy 7 by author Mirjam Mous were in production simultaneously, one a Dutch production by Lemming Films, the other a German-language version produced by Hamster Film, Lemming’s German sister company. The source novel, a science fiction thriller in the vein of texts such as The Hunger Games, had been very successful with a teenage readership in both countries because of its transnational characteristics and global appeal. The article discusses the film adaptations of Boy 7 as a case study that illuminates the continued positioning of European genre cinema as part of national film traditions. I argue that this position is mainly industry driven and a result of commercial concerns, but it also reveals the tensions between, on the one hand, increasingly transnational industry practices and, on the other, the persistence of cultural specificity and the need to appeal to local and national audiences whose tastes are being shaped by global cinema.
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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 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.000 |
| 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".