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Record W4391303361 · doi:10.32920/25106078.v1

Repetition, Compulsion, and Representation in Atom Egoyan’s Films

2024· preprint· en· W4391303361 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Monique Tschofen

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCinema and Media Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRepetition (rhetorical device)Representation (politics)Atom (system on chip)Computer scienceLinguisticsPhilosophyPolitical scienceEmbedded systemPolitics

Abstract

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[Introduction]: “Scarcely forty years old, Toronto-based filmmaker Atom Egoyan has proven himself to be astonishingly prolific. He has managed to complete eight short films, three operas, several installations, extensive work for television (including episodes for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Friday the 13th, and the made-for-TV movie Gross Misconduct}, and eight feature-length films in which he has more often than not taken responsibility for the writing and producing as well as the directing. Since 1984, when Next of Kin was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Director, his features have earned him innumerable awards and accolades in Canada and abroad. Much of his early fame in the international scene came as a result of Wim Wenders' gesture at the 1987 Festival of New Cinema and Video in Montreal when Wenders offered the prize money for Best Film he had been awarded for Wings of Desire to Egoyan, the young director of Family Viewing. The Adjuster, from 1991, won Best Canadian Feature at the Toronto Festival of Festivals as well as the Special Jury Prize at the Moscow Film Festival. Exotica was the first Canadian film in more than a decade to be invited to compete at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the International Critics Prize. The Sweet Hereafter also had its premiere at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury, International Critics, and Ecumenical Jury prizes before going on to win eight Canadian Genie awards, including Best Picture and Best Direction. Egoyan also received Academy Award nominations for his direction and screenplay adaptation of this film, unprecedented recognition for a Canadian director of a Canadian movie. For his successes, he has been offered five honourary doctorates from Canadian universities, inducted into the Order of Canada, elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, and even knighted with a Chevalier dans l'ordre des arts et des lettres by the French government in 1996.”

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
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: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.028
Threshold uncertainty score0.056

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.010
Scholarly communication0.0060.003
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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 head0.038
GPT teacher head0.262
Teacher spread0.224 · 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
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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