Through the Fictive to the Real(ish): Affective Time and the Representation of “Real Newfoundland” in Rising Tide Theatre’s Trinity Pageant
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this article, Jacobson examines the ways in which the Trinity Pageant in Trinity, Newfoundland, Canada aims to animate local culture through a two-hour walking tour around the town’s historic sites that is largely predicated on a sense of realness. Using interviews with audience members and the pageant’s director Donna Butt as primary source material, Jacobson considers the perception and function of realness in the pageant’s re-enactment. She first uses theories of site-specificity, historical re-enactment, and theatrical time to consider the various forms of the “real” at work in the production. Jacobson then suggests the work that might be accomplished by such affectively real performance, as both a marker and maker of real identity, supported by the theories of Elin Diamond and Erin Hurley. Using concepts from Rebecca Schneider and Tracy C. Davis, Jacobson also argues that the affective time created by the pageant’s blending of past history and present-day performance creates a future imperative in which audience members are compelled to save the authentic culture they have just witnessed. Finally, she considers the implicitly conservative preservationist impulse that underscores the pageant’s re-enactment to trouble notions of inclusion, belonging, and community.
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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 | 0.019 | 0.036 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".