Bibliographic record
Abstract
Distributed by Good DocsProduced by Jacqueline RhodesDirected by Jacqueline Rhodes2020, Streaming, 83 mins This documentary explores the history, politics, and inter-personal relationships of the lesbian feminist collective group the Furies, active during the early 1970s. Through interviews with ten of the twelve original collective members (including award-winning feminist author Rita Mae Brown), as well as archival material and writing, this film traces the history of the collective from formation to its conclusion shortly afterwards. Topics such as the political background of the collective and its members, as well as the major political ideas of the collective – such a lesbian separatism, political lesbianism, and its context within the women’s liberation movement more widely are all covered in detail. The film provides a helpful understanding of the impact of the The Furies publication, both during the time the collective existed and after the dissolution of the collective. However, the greater target of the film is the membership themselves - their passions, conflicts, and relationships with each other. The film is a unique insight into the dynamics of the group and intensity of living in the Furies collective as an experience for its members. The focus on the member interviews without a strong supporting structure to pull out the themes and events being discussed creates challenges in holding viewer attention. The strengths of this film are firmly in the in-depth, specialized research the filmmaker has undertaken, rather than the narrative or technical aspects of the film. Because of the detailed nature of Once a Fury, it would be most appropriate for viewers interested in a specific study of The Furies as a feminist collective, rather than a more general exploration of lesbian feminism. Awards:2022 Lavender Rhetorics Award for Best Queer Research (nontraditional), Conference on College Composition & Communication; Best Documentary, Los Angeles Motion Picture Festival, Silver Award; Best Documentary, Madrid Art Film Festival; Best Documentary, Paris Independent Film Festival; Best LGBTQ Feature, Beyond the Curve International Film Festival; Best LGBTQ Feature, Los Angeles Motion Picture Festival, Gold Award; Best LGBTQ Feature, Queen City Film Festival
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.467 | 0.173 |
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".