Vernacular masculinity and politics of space in contemporary Bollywood cinema
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract A series of popular Hindi films, specifically located in north-Indian small towns, not just depict a new spatiality through realist overtures; they also stage the appearance of a distinct form of masculinity on-screen. This article specifically looks at the representation and construction of masculine subjectivity in contemporary small-town films such as Dabangg (2010), Ishaqzaade (2012) and Gangs of Wasseypur I and II (2012) to analyse how this new spatiality is conjured through the re-configuration of non-urban manhood. Visibly distinctive bodily gestures, unique modes of consumption, often accompanied by localized dispensation, make it possible for these male characters to represent the in-between-ness of the small town. While the device of cinematic excess marks the representation of the vernacular space and its masculine inhabitant, such excess, this article further argues, enables the provincial India to appropriate its own discourses of legality, politics and community.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".