Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Chris Dupuis's wonderfully wry social history of Winter Kept Us Warm, readers are invited to consider this film within a troubled continuum of queer cinematic "friendship."From the deliciously overwrought death kiss of Wings, to the shattering beach hand job of Moonlight, Chris positions Winter's convoluted bromance as a stubborn, nervous, understated outlier, shivering amongst its more flamboyant mid-sixties cine peers, framing the film within the National Film Board's "small story" vérité tradition, and convincingly arguing that the film refuses the two dominant queer tendencies of the day: on the one hand, the gloriously high-stakes neo-realist melodramatic excess of The Leather Boys or Accattone, and on the other, the experimental underground radicalism of a Warhol or an Anger.The book explores how the film's near erasure from our cinematic memory is a complex product of warring social, critical, and cultural forces over these ensuing six decades: the rise (and fall) of subsequent generations of queer cinemas, in all their labyrinthine glories, the parallel inventions, transformations, and convolutions of both our English Canadian film industry, and equally, our parallel Canadian indie tradition, and perhaps most of all, the aching question of what we viewers think we really want from our closeted "friendship" stories, past and present.In this nuanced appreciation of Winter, Chris has persuasively restored the film to its rightful place (warts and all) within a queer indie Toronto canon (which is already well represented in this growing Queer Classics series, and Foreword The Heart of Light, the Silence
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.715 | 0.688 |
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".