¡Prohibida! Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli's struggle with censorship in Argentina
Bibliographic record
Abstract
By exploring the work of the sexploitation couple Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli this article gives a history of different periods of film censorship in Argentina beginning in 1955, after the coup that ousted the democratically elected Juan Domingo Perón. The article works through different stages to show that while there was official censorship from 1963 to 1984, instituted through Argentina's Film Classification Board, censorship was a growing practice that legally increased in the post-Perón period. The only exception occurred during a fleeting moment of 90 days in 1973 when filmmaker Octavio Getino was comptroller of the Classification Board and Peronism was returning. Working with the remnants of the Intimidades de una cualquiera [Intimacies of a Prostitute] file, the only remaining but incomplete Bó file in existence, and with other archival materials (press clippings, surviving film versions, official laws), this article helps to reveal possible reasons behind Bó's censorship.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".