The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years’ War 1931–1945 , by Peter B. High. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003, 544 pp., $60.00 (hardback ISBN 0299181308), $24.95 (paperback ISBN 0299181340)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
It is a cause for celebration that we finally have Peter B. High’s book on wartime Japanese cinema translated to English, nearly ten years after the original Teikoku no Ginmaku (1995) was published. Signaling the prominent recognition accorded High’s book in US film studies, The Imperial Screen received the Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award at the 2004 Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) annual conference. In the formidable task of translation, the first couple of chapters were extensively rewritten and reorganized; however, the book’s main themes and its overall tone have remained intact. The book’s back cover lists four key words: film, Japan, Asian history and World War II. As these words indicate, the book manages the crossover of the disciplines of film studies, Japan studies and history. The author’s wide-ranging academic background and interests (he studied politics, Japanese literature, American literature, and has been teaching film and English)...
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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".