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Record W4406547484 · doi:10.1163/26659891-bja10048

Why Trans Cinema Doesn’t Exist

2025· article· en· W4406547484 on OpenAlexaff
Cáel M. Keegan

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in World Cinema · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCinema and Media Studies
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMovie theaterArtArt history

Abstract

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Abstract This essay illustrates how queer cinema studies has been structured by a negative co-history with trans that has driven the texts and questions it can take up, the temporalities governing its formation, and the rhetorical shape of its intellectual products. It argues that the ground from which queer cinema studies has traced the evolution of queer cinema – from an outsider form to a now tenuously global force – is terrain established via a cordoning-off of the disruption that trans enacts on the binary sexed forms necessary to “same-sex” desire. Therefore, the essay claims, the field of queer cinema studies has emerged through an agentive commitment to non-transsexuality as an unacknowledged speaking position from which its textual analyses are performed as performative.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.024
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.025
Threshold uncertainty score0.083

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.024
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.018
Scholarly communication0.0110.015
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0250.003

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.

Opus teacher head0.058
GPT teacher head0.303
Teacher spread0.245 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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