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Record W4254592000 · doi:10.3138/cras-s034-03-02

Hollywood Intellect

2004· article· en· W4254592000 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
James D. Bloom

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Review of American Studies · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCinema and Media Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDisenchantmentHollywoodIntellectAestheticsSociologyCommodificationMedia studiesPolitical scienceArtLawArt historyPhilosophyEpistemology

Abstract

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At least since the introduction of talking movies some seventy years ago, Hollywood screenwriters have sometimes functioned as and often assumed the role of so-called public intellectuals. Over the past decade, familiar laments over the decline of public intellectuals and their influence have made acknowledging this legacy and its persis­tence increasingly noteworthy. Such an acknowledgment is likely to reveal especially provocative and culturally productive tensions because commercial movie making manufactures and markets enchantment, while the modern intellectual’s agenda, according to Max Weber, aims at disenchantment (155). “Self appointed Holly­woodologist” (“Any” 55) and intellectual aspirant Budd Schulberg has, metaphorically, echoed Weber’s formulation in maintaining that pursuing a traditional intellectual’s agenda in Hollywood entails walking a “treadmill of disenchantment” (Sanctuary 159). Antagonism between these aspirations provides the would-be Hol­lywood intellectual such as Schulberg with a particularly vexing and especially illuminating vantage point.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.079
Threshold uncertainty score0.264

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0030.005
Scholarly communication0.0080.007
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0790.030

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.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.270
Teacher spread0.226 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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