Ciné-Documents: Negotiating the Representation of the December 6th Massacre or When Feminism and Anti-Feminism Meet in the Same Film
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this English translation of a chapter of her 2009 book “J'haïs les féministes!” Le 6 décembre 1989 et ses suites, Mélissa Blais presents a radical feminist study of the 2009 film Polytechnique as an important event in the ongoing construction of the collective memory of the massacre. Beginning with an overview of how Quebec gender politics were marked by male domination in 2009, the article goes on to offer a critical analysis of the film's gendered characterization. Finally, Blais develops an analysis of the film's coverage by Montreal francophone daily newspapers Le Devoir and La Presse, arguing they develop a "negotiated" account of the film by juxtaposing elements of both a feminist and anti-feminist discourse. Of particular significance is a consistent construction of suffering masculinity in the film and in the mass media discourse surrounding it that occludes the misogynist and anti-feminist nature of the 1989 massacre.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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.
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".