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Record W4409107646 · doi:10.1093/jahist/jaae333

Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941–1960

2025· article· en· W4409107646 on OpenAlexaff
Paul McKenzie-Jones

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of American History · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhotography and Visual Culture
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Lethbridge
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBusinessGeographyPolitical science

Abstract

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In Picturing Indians Liza Black moves away from critiques of individual filmic representations of American Indians by Hollywood to a long-needed examination of Native American labor in the film industry. Focusing exclusively on the post–World War II period, Black positions the experiences of these Native American film workers within the context of the era's political shifts, including Native American relocation policy and the Termination Act of 1953, which targeted Native communities for assimilation into the wider American society. Through looking at labor and the presence of many Native Americans who forged careers, or at least gained long-term employment, within the industry, Black shows the somewhat-ironic lives many people led finding economic survival in an industry that steadfastly refused to acknowledge the reality of Native American lives and identities, even when hiring Natives to work in and on films. Here were people earning a living for studios determined to keep them in the past on-screen, even while using their contemporary skills behind the scenes.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.127
Threshold uncertainty score0.253

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0040.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
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 head0.025
GPT teacher head0.260
Teacher spread0.235 · 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 designQualitative
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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