Stranger than Paradise: Postcommunist Immigration in the Eyes of Self and ‘Other’
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Since the beginning of the millennium, Eastern European cinemas have produced a number of films, devoted to the problems of post-communist immigrants 'there,' in the new lands of promise, and of the feelings of those, left behind 'here,' in their native lands.It is enough to mention the Bulgarian Letter to America (2001), The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner (2008) and The Sinking of Sozopol (2014) as well as the Romanian Sundays on Leave (1993) and Occident (2001).In addition to the few Eastern European films on human trafficking, like the Hungarian Bibliotheque Pascal (2010) and Bulgarian Face Down (2015), there have begun to appear films about migrants who pass through the postcommunist countries on their way to Western Europe like the Romanian film Morgen (2011) and the Bulgarian The Judgement (2014).This paper therefore is an attempt at mapping the territory by creating a taxonomy of the representation of emigration and immigration in postcommunist Eastern European cinemas.By building on theories of the 'gaze' and on efforts to adapt a post-colonial approach to Eastern European cultural production, the paper also lays the foundation of a complex and subject-specific methodological approach.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".