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Record W4413365566 · doi:10.1386/ijds_00014_1

Identity, intertextuality and Italianicity: The edutainment of Disney-Pixar’s Luca (2021)

2025· article· en· W4413365566 on OpenAlexaff
Ethan Salerno Nogueira

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Disney Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMedia, Gender, and Advertising
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIntertextualityIdentity (music)ArtLiteratureAesthetics

Abstract

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This article examines how Disney-Pixar’s Luca (2021) constructs identity alongside two filmic pillars: intertextuality and Italianicity. The three levels of analysis that emerge in this study – identity, intertextuality and Italianicity – are contextualized in interdisciplinary literature and the imagination at the centre of Disney’s filmography. First, this article examines identity formation in the film through its characters which supplies viewers with an opportunity for self-reflection. Next, it explores the intricate intertextuality of the film and posits these references, whether intentional or latent, as connective pieces to Luca ’s filmic contexts. Finally, it examines the function of Italianicity on a variety of levels to galvanize how the film is chock-full of references that embrace and stage Italy. All of this considered, this article frames how these three pillars come together to teach Italian culture to viewers via the film.

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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)0.001
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 score0.310
Threshold uncertainty score0.253

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
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 head0.047
GPT teacher head0.454
Teacher spread0.408 · 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 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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