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Record W4385820216 · doi:10.31355/96

Can We Talk? Employment and Representation in the Film Industry

2023· article· en· W4385820216 on OpenAlex
Elya Myers

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Community Development and Management Studies · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMainstreamStorytellingFilm industrySociologyFront (military)Representation (politics)Media studiesReflexivityPublic relationsVisual artsGender studiesNarrativePolitical scienceMovie theaterEngineeringSocial scienceArtPolitics

Abstract

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Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this research is to identify within the arts and culture sphere and, more specifically, the film industry, what kinds of employment opportunities are afforded (or not) to BIPOC communities, specifically Black communities in Quebec? How are Black communities in Quebec represented in the local film industry, both in front of and behind the camera? In what ways are Black stories being told, how are they being represented, and how many Black people are actually telling their own stories across media? Background: This paper attempts to lay out the general state of the film industry within Canada, focusing on Quebec’s Black communities. Methodology: Using an intersectional approach, I draw from a wide range of ages, backgrounds, languages, and experiences that will cover the range of roles affected at each level of the industry through in-depth interviews. This will be accompanied by a self-reflexive comparison to my experiences navigating the film industry during university and after within the labor market. Findings: The results of this research demonstrate that there is a distinct divide between how Black communities see themselves represented in front of and behind the screen within different parts of the film industry. Impact on Society: Due to exclusionary practices and lack of investment in BIPOC storytelling, the ways in which BIPOC creatives and specifically those in the Black community have to find ways to navigate outside mainstream film industry circuits to create.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.414
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
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 head0.093
GPT teacher head0.359
Teacher spread0.267 · 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