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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 OpenAlexvenueno aff
Tutun Mukherjee

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.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.029

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.017
Scholarly communication0.0050.009
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0010.004
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 head0.030
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

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 designNot applicable
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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Published2008
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