Bibliographic record
Abstract
This dissertation offers an analysis of the cinematic (un)homely. Loosely based on Freud's concept of the uncanny – that frightful and inexplicable experience of the home as a foreign and strange space – the (un)homely is a poignant sign of the times, a contemporary trope of the various kinds of spatial dislocation, transience, homelessness and disempowerment symptomatic of contemporary global societies. In short the (un)homely conjures up the decline of family, its faltering role as the moral center of the world and all the unpleasant ramifications that come from the destabilization of the home. The (un)homely speaks to the breakdown of what is deemed proper – the distinction between public and private space, the unraveling of gender norms, the troubling de-localization of mobile technologies. While the uncanny nature of the home is a mainstay in many science fiction and horror films, my analysis uses the concept of the (un)homely to explore a wide range of contemporary films that explore every day domestic environments and the way the home is the site for a wide range of devastating intrusions – from the precarious nature of the nation in an age of globalization to the way mobile work seeps into the protective spaces of the home. These intrusions I contend provide themes and images related to the ways in which contemporary social relations, work and new technologies prevent characters from ever finding their way home. However, while an encounter with the (un)homely represents a painful experience with the loss of home, the (un)homely can offer an ethics of dwelling, as the impossibility of narrative closure or the shift in power relations offer new and more hopeful ways of dwelling in the world.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.021 | 0.002 |
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".