Herbert Marshall McLuhan: Before Th e Mechanical Bride – David Staines
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Marshall McLuhan, Canada&s;s pre-eminent media-theory explorer, raising and addressing historical and contemporary issues of and relationships among media and technology, society and culture, and approached his material and his audience not only as a professor of English literature but also as a modernist literary artist/performer. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, a number of high-modernist writers constructed their interpretations of what were for them visible and identifiable features in the social and physical behaviour of moviegoers. In an art-house lobby such as the New Yorker&s;s cinephiles and aficionados and other movie enthusiasts participate comfortably in what is typically a relaxing atmosphere. This chapter explores McLuhan-at-the-movies within the movie Annie Hall and, in light of literary modernists&s; interest in moviegoing, considers possible interpretations of that historic moment. Woody Allen, on the other hand, loved Bergman, perhaps had even thought of him for what became the &s;McLuhan" role in Annie Hall, just as he had certainly thought of Buñuel.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.019 | 0.004 |
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".