“Practicing Self-Care on a Highway in the Middle of Nowhere”: Ashley McKenzie’s Cape Breton
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines the way in which film-maker Ashley McKenzie depicts changes in Cape Breton’s landscape and its economic and social fabric. McKenzie’s films, Werewolf (2016) and Queen’s of the Qing Dynasty (2022), give us a vocabulary for understanding the island in the cost of living era: they move our gaze to Cape Breton’s experience of opioid addiction; a collapsing mental health system; an influx of international students who McKenzie depicts as a new class of labor to be exploited; a particularly grim version of the “gig economy”; a mismatch between expectations around gender and patterns of work; and non-normative sexuality in a marginal place. This article explores how McKenzie’s films document the impacts of economic change in industrial Cape Breton and looks specifically at her portrayal of “noxious deindustrialization.”
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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 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".