Poetics of Parapraxis and Reeducation:The Hong Kong Cantonese Cinema in the 1950s
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Abstract
For many people, the pleasure of watching a Hong Kong Cantonese film in the 1950s requires a taste for a set of stylistic traits that are distinct from classical Hollywood cinema. In this chapter, Fan argues that there is a poetics specific to the Hong Kong Cantonese cinema in the 1950s. Such poetics serves to negotiate a set of conflicting sociopolitical values via a form of parapraxis (Freudian slip). With Weilou chunxiao [Ngailau ceonhiu or In the Face of Demolition, Lee Tit, 1953] as a case study, Fan proposes that the Cantonese cinema in the 1950s performs the failure of the leftwing intellectuals to perform in a colonial space where they had no active sociopolitical agency, and their collective failure to even consider returning ‘home’ and reconstruct the ‘national’ space. These films offer narratives in which intellectuals are reeducated and reintegrated into the masses, thus offering the spectators a ‘second chance’ to rehearse the possibility of having a political agency to activate social change.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".