Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this essay, I draw on the concepts of accented/transnational cinemas to discuss four feature films directed by Canadian Syrian filmmaker and TV director Ruba Nadda. Through Sabah (2005); Cairo Time (2009); Inescapable (2012); and October Gale (2014), the viewers witness the reconstruction of the West as home from the standpoint of a Canadian-born Toronto-based woman filmmaker of Arab descent. Despite Nadda’s constant yearning to her Arab origins, one can claim that borders between Arab and non-Arab are not always blurred in her films. Instead, cultural bridges are built across borders to transcend the traditional poetics of exile/immigration and to overcome politics of cultural despair triggered by binaries such as East and West, homeland and hostland, national and transnational belonging, etc. By focusing on issues of homeness, integration, religious difference, and cultural recognition, on the one hand, and questions of home-returning and home-reconstruction, on the other hand, I argue that no matter where Nadda’s characters dwell, they belong to the Western set of values, and they represent each a facet of her multiple identities, chief among them Western individuality. I also investigate the filmmaker’s gender-based approach to mainstream cinematic genres such as romantic comedy and thriller and her interest in these genres as a TV director as well.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".