Review: <i>Kill the Documentary: A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars</i>, by Jill Godmilow
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Book Review| March 01 2023 Review: Kill the Documentary: A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars, by Jill Godmilow Kill the Documentary: A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars, by Jill Godmilow Jaimie Baron Jaimie Baron JAIMIE BARON is a professor of film studies at the University of Alberta. Her research to date has focused primarily on issues of documentary representation, audiovisual appropriation, historiography, and ethics. Her most recent book, Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era (Rutgers University Press, 2020), examines the complex ethical stakes involved in repurposing existing recordings of other people for incorporation into new works. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar BOOK DATA Jill Godmilow, Kill the Documentary: A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. $120.00 hardcover; $30.00 paper. 224 pages. Film Quarterly (2023) 76 (3): 104–107. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.76.3.104 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jaimie Baron; Review: Kill the Documentary: A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars, by Jill Godmilow. Film Quarterly 1 March 2023; 76 (3): 104–107. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.76.3.104 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFilm Quarterly Search BOOK DATA Jill Godmilow, Kill the Documentary: A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. $120.00 hardcover; $30.00 paper. 224 pages. In 2002, filmmaker Jill Godmilow published an eleven-point manifesto in the Journal of Film and Video entitled “Kill the Documentary as We Know It,” which quickly became required reading for anyone interested in the ethical and epistemological problems posed by documentary film. Godmilow was at that time already a well-known and widely admired filmmaker. Her 1974 collaboration with musician Judy Collins, Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman, a powerful biography of the female conductor Antonia Brico, received an Academy Award nomination (and was later added to the National Film Registry). Her 1984 experimental documentary, Far from Poland, had become a key text in the deconstruction of documentary film’s claims of “taking you there” and offering access to “reality.” Her 1987 feature... You do not currently have access to this content.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.027 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.102 | 0.109 |
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".