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Record W243074162 · doi:10.3138/cjfs.17.2.35

Deepa Mehta’s Film Water: The Power of the Dialectical Image

2008· article· fr· W243074162 on OpenAlex
Tutun Mukherjee

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Film Studies · 2008
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSouth Asian Cinema and Culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanitiesArtSubversionSociologyPolitical sciencePolitics

Abstract

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Le film de Deepa Mehta Water examine la marginalisation de veuves indoues oubliées qui tentent par tous les moyens de survivre dans des conditions de pauvreté et de misère atroces. Le film témoigne du courage de la réalisatrice face à l’intimidation des forces patriarcales qui ont essayé de lui mettre des bâtons dans les roues. Le fait que Mehta ait put produire son film dans de telles circonstances confirme sa nature intrépide et son amour tenace du métier. Cela témoigne également de la confiance que le producteur David Hamilton lui porte. Water présente des images inoubliables composées avec sensibilité et subtilité pour créer beauté et émotion. La douleur muette des veuves indoues, représentée par des images saisissantes, engage le spectateur dans un échange dialectique. Par une lecture attentive du film de Mehta, cet article vise à élucider la manière par laquelle la réalisatrice réussit à créer un film porteur de sens et un texte social extrêmement important. La méthodologie analytique de cette étude est inspirée par les exposés de Walter Benjamin sur l’image dialectique et les questions de « reproduction » et de « reproductibilité » de l’oeuvre d’art.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.448
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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 head0.030
GPT teacher head0.226
Teacher spread0.196 · 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