Soft-Core Sovereignty: Absorbing Canada’s Doukhobors in <i>The Naked Flame</i> (1964)
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Abstract
La tradition d’utilisation du corps nu comme instrument de résistance politique a débuté il y a plus d’un siècle dans les Prairies canadiennes, lorsque les partisans d’une secte religieuse d’immigrants russes, connue sous le nom de Doukhobor Sons of Freedom, ont commencé à manifester nus pour contester les politiques assimilationnistes du gouvernement. Cette tactique permit d’attirer régulièrement l’attention de la culture médiatique canadienne de l’après-guerre et inspira l’un des premiers films de sexploitation du pays, The Naked Flame (Larry Matanski, 1964), largement oublié. Le présent article situe la production et la réception de ce film dans le cadre du discours contemporain des universitaires, des parlementaires et des médias sur le « problème doukhobor ». En outre, il examine la façon dont le film utilise la nudité et d’autres tropes du cinéma de sexploitation pour mettre en relief le statut précaire et dangereux de la souveraineté des Svobodniki au Canada et pour justifier, en termes cinématographiques, les politiques coercitives du gouvernement afin d’assimiler les citoyens blancs « problématiques » dans les années 1960.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".