HORROR AND THE BODY: UNDERSTANDING THE REWORKING OF THE GENRE IN MARINA DE VAN’S DANS MA PEAU/IN MY SKIN (2001)
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Abstract
This article explores how Marina de Van’s confrontational representation of the human body, in her film Dans ma peau/In my Skin (2001), should be understood as a reinterpretation of certain major themes in the horror genre. More specifically, I examine how de Van’s mise-en-scène borrows from the genre of horror , both on a visual and a technical level, to deconstruct the meanings initially attached to the representation of the body in pain found in horror’s narratives. I argue that a close analysis of the textural properties of the image allows for a reappraisal of the onscreen presence of the wounded body, this body departing from horror’s straightforward visual regimen, to open up a space for the character’s subjectivity to emerge. I also posit that the use of the close-up on images of blood and scars, while being reminiscent of horror’s treatment of the body, becomes a vehicle for the unleashing of the character’s unmediated drives to explore her own flesh and to reach a new level of self-awareness.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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.
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