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Record W2019580494 · doi:10.1353/crv.2007.0017

ConjuringTrauma: The Naudet Brothers' 9/11Documentary

2007· article· en· W2019580494 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Stef Craps

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Review of American Studies · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhilosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhilosophyArtHistoryLiterature

Abstract

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The events of 11 September 2001 caused a rupture not only in the normal order of things but also, and perhaps especially, in the signifying systems underwriting that order. The Naudet brothers' remarkable 9/11 documentary, which aired on CBS on 10 March 2002 and on TV stations around the world on the first anniversary of the attacks, seeks to reinstitute the authority of the conventions and constructions of a culture whose limits the events of 11 September had painfully exposed. The film—entitled 9/11—is marked by a fundamental tension between the revelation of an abysmal crisis of meaning, on the one hand, and the desire to bring this crisis under control, on the other. The filmmakers attempt to mitigate the traumatic potential of their unique atrocity footage by sanitizing it and integrating it into a Hollywood-style coming-of-age drama tracing a probationary fire-fighter's perilous journey from innocence to experience. Thus, the focus shifts from a disorienting and overwhelming sense of loss to comforting, ideologically charged notions of heroism and community that perpetuate an idealized national self-image and come to function as a moral justification for retaliation. In its drive to obtain mastery over trauma by rendering it legible in terms of existing cultural codes, 9/11 appears to disregard what Cathy Caruth calls ''the event's essential incomprehensibility, the force of its affront to understanding'' (154). Yet, for all its investment in a classical realist aesthetic, the film remains haunted by a traumatic history that exceeds and breaks down accustomed habits of thought, narration, and visualization. Les événements du 11 septembre 2001 ont provoqué une rupture non seulement dans l'ordre naturel des choses, mais également, et peut-être tout particulièrement, dans les systèmes de signifiés qui sous-tendent cet ordre des choses. Le remarquable documentaire sur le 11 septembre réalisé par les frères Naudet, présenté par le réseau CBS le 10 mars 2002, puis par de nombreuses chaînes de télévision du monde entier pour souligner le premier anniversaire des attentats, tente de rétablir l'autorité des conventions et constructions d'une culture dont les limites ont été douloureusement mises á jour par les attentats du 11 septembre. Le film — intitulé 9/11 — se caractérise par une tension fondamentale entre la révélation une grave crise de signification d'une part, et le désir de dominer cette crise d'autre part. Les réalisateurs tentent d'atténuer le potentiel traumatisant des scènes atroces qu'ils présentent en les expurgeant de leurs contenus les plus crus et en les intégrant dans un scénario de style hollywoodien, dans lequel un jeune pompier á ses premières armes effectue un dangereux parcours qui va de l'innocence á l'expérience. Ainsi, l'accent passe d'un sentiment d'énorme perte á un sentiment d'héroïsme et de sens communautaire réconfortant, chargé sur le plan idéologique, qui perpétuant une image nationale idéalisée et qui finit par servir de justification á d'éventuelles représailles. Dans son intention de maîtriser le traumatisme en le rendant intelligible en termes des codes culturels existants, 9/11 semble ignorer complètement ce que Cathy Caruth a appelé ¨ l'incompréhensibilité fondamentale des événements, la force de l'affront fait á la compréhension [the event's essential incomprehensibility, the force of its affront to understanding] £ (154). Pourtant, malgré son parti pris pour une esthétique réaliste classique, le film reste marqué par une histoire traumatisante qui dépasse et brise les modes de pensée, de narration et de vision habituels.

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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)0.003
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: none
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.032

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0160.008
Scholarly communication0.0070.004
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0030.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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 head0.058
GPT teacher head0.318
Teacher spread0.261 · 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

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