Fragmente of memory : mainstream representation and Italian Canadian film and video
Bibliographic record
Abstract
While the mass media continues to disseminate one-dimensional stereotypical renditions of Italian culture, the actual "work of the imagination" (Appadurai 4) is taking place in the margins of these sites. Here action and agency, framed against the mass media, develops ethnic minority representation as a rich complexity of images and stories. Because Canadian film and video makers who use their immigrant and "ethnic" experience in their work, will often find it being judged as culturally "poor" and of "no value", it is important that the label of "ethnic" be deconstructed. Meanings are never fixed or immutable (Tator 8). William Boelhower's investigation of ethnic semiosis that he applied to American ethnic literatuře and Italian Canadian poetry can therefore also be applied to the works ofsome Italian Canadian filmmakers. For this paper I transpose Boelhower's theories on the Italian Canadian poetry in Pier Giorgio Di Cicco's Roman Candles (Di Cicco 1978; Boelhower 1992: 229-244) to the two Italian Canadian films being discussed here: Sara Angelucci's video America il Paradiso (1997) and Patricia Fogliato and David Mortin's film The Good Life (1991).
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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 | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.009 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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".