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The Audiovisual Style of Malcolm Clarke’s Oral History Documentary

2023· article· en· W4389397132 on OpenAlex
Dian Xu

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Bibliographic record

VenueCommunications in Humanities Research · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicOral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRealmNarrativeFilmmakingStyle (visual arts)Oral historyVisual artsAestheticsShot (pellet)HistoryLiteratureSociologyArtMovie theaterAnthropology

Abstract

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This article is primarily dedicated to an in-depth examination of the audio-visual style employed by documentary filmmaker Malcolm Clarke. This analysis is achieved through a meticulous dissection of scenes, shot composition, and sound elements within three of his notable oral history documentaries, namely, “A Long-Cherished Dream,” “The Lady in Number 6,” and “Soldiers in Hiding.” The article initiates by offering insights into the concept and evolution of oral history documentaries as a distinct subgenre within the broader documentary realm. Subsequently, the article embarks on a critical evaluation of how Clarke’s documentaries align with the specific attributes and expectations associated with oral history documentaries. It scrutinizes how Clarke adeptly harnesses a diverse array of cinematic techniques to unearth and present the often-overlooked facets of history, which remain concealed or marginalized within the grander narrative of historical discourse. Through this comprehensive analysis, the article provides a comprehensive assessment of Malcolm Clarke’s contribution to the realm of documentary filmmaking and his unique approach to elucidating the lesser-explored dimensions of history.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.710
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.006
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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 head0.454
GPT teacher head0.439
Teacher spread0.015 · 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