Romantic Disillusionment, (Dis)Identification, and the Sublimation of National Identity in Québec’s “New Wave”: <i>Heartbeats</i> by Xavier Dolan and <i>Night #1</i> by Anne Émond
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines (post)nationalism in recent Québécois cinema. I study the films Heartbeats (2010) by Xavier Dolan and Night #1 (2011) by Anne Émond, which portray personal stories of love and lust. Looking at the link between intimate and political relationships, I investigate what the new tendency to portray today’s disillusioned youths’ unfulfilled romantic fantasies tells us about how contemporary Québec identifies, connects with, and defines itself in opposition to the Other. This phenomenon appears to be all the more prominent in Québec since Québec’s national identity has historically been defined “in opposition,” alternately to the British colonizer, to the rest of English-speaking Canada, to the English-speaking minority within Québec, and more recently to immigrants from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. Thus I suggest that Québec’s exclusionary model of identity has been incorporated in the construction of personal identity, leaving today’s youth longing for a closeness that is impossible to accomplish. I propose to focus on the “politics of the intimate” in what has been dubbed Québec’s “New Wave,” which is symptomatic of a more profound anxiety that traverses contemporary Québec culture and its increasing multiculturalism.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 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".