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Record W4304185035 · doi:10.5117/9789462980730_ch04

Realism, Illusion, and Special Effectsin the Cinema

2022· book-chapter· en· W4304185035 on OpenAlexaff
Marc Furstenau

Bibliographic record

VenueAmsterdam University Press eBooks · 2022
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCinema and Media Studies
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDepictionIllusionRealismMovie theaterAestheticsOptical illusionPerceptionRepresentation (politics)Argument (complex analysis)EpistemologyArtPsychologyPhilosophyCognitive psychologyArt historyVisual artsPolitics

Abstract

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Special effects have long been described as illusory or as the techniques for the creation of illusion. In this respect, special effects have been understood to be in the service of the generally illusory nature of cinematic representation itself, with realistic depiction reduced to the status of illusion. Against an illusion theory of cinematic realism and of realistic pictorial depiction generally, the argument here is that realism in the cinema is thoroughly a matter of style and that it need not become entangled with the apparently related but in fact tangential question of illusion and the related questions of perception, belief, and “reality.” Considering a particular film by George Méliès, The Vanishing Lady, which realistically represents a magic trick, an “illusion,” a more limited and specific account of realism is proposed.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.963
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.180
Teacher spread0.154 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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