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Record W4393019726 · doi:10.7202/1102257ar

Selling “Silence” in Contemporary Horror: Krasinski’s Quiet Consumers

2023· article· en· W4393019726 on OpenAlexaff
Selma A. Purac

Bibliographic record

VenueMonstrum · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGothic Literature and Media Analysis
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQUIETSilenceArtAdvertisingAestheticsBusinessPhysicsAstronomy

Abstract

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2018 horror film A Quiet Place broke through the noise of a box office dominated by blockbusters and pre-existing properties. 1 Acclaimed by critics, the relatively modest production, which cost only 17 million dollars to make, went on to gross over 340 million dollars worldwide (AQP Numbers).In part, this success is rooted in the film's focus on the horror soundscape, which is central to its very premise.A Quiet Place opens eighty-nine days after an alien invasion has decimated the world's population.The invading creatures are sightless monsters with hypersensitive hearing and hunt using sound.We follow one family's struggle to keep silent and stay alive.The Abbotts seem especially well equipped for survival in this world; because their eldest child, Regan, is deaf, they can already communicate silently using American Sign Language.Regan's supposed disability therefore serves as a tool for family survival.However, in a world where sound is deadly, Regan's deafness would also seem to intensify her vulnerability.Because she does not hear, she is likelier to find herself in a compromising position, unaware when a sound has endangered her or when the creatures are close.This threat is highlighted in the film's opening sequence, when Regan gives her little brother a toy rocket which he recklessly activates.Failing to understand the necessity of silence, he is promptly killed off.The family's grief is literally unspeakable, and the need to keep quiet amplifies the breakdown of communication that they experience while in

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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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)0.001
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: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.775
Threshold uncertainty score0.463

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
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 head0.052
GPT teacher head0.326
Teacher spread0.274 · 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.

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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