Intertextuality as Métissage in Tsai Ming-liang’s Sino-French Films
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Intertertextuality constitutes a form of métissage since it facilitates connections by mixing two texts, creating hybrid forms. Auteur Tsai Ming-liang, culturally, linguistically and nationally métis, as a Malaysian born, Taiwanese by adoption, has directed two films whose Sino-Frenchness results primarily from intertextuality. What Time is it There? (2001) and Face (2009) pay homage to French New Wave director François Truffaut, in innovative fashion. In the earlier work, Tsai cites Truffaut’s New Wave hit, The 400 Blows, (1959) drawing a parallel between its protagonist, Antoinel Doinel and his main character, Hsiao-kang, both played by the respective directors’ signature actors (Jean-Pierre Léaud, Lee Kang-sheng,). Léaud’s cemetery cameo in What Time? suggests that the original French movement, supposedly dead, like the protagonist Hsiao-kang’s father, lives on. Face expands to Truffaut’s later films and refers intertextually to texts in arts other than cinema, establishing the Sino-French as a cross-media as well as cross-cultural phenomenon.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".