A Hundred Years of Japanese Film by Donald Richie: A Chronicle of Japanese Film’s Impact on History, Culture, and Politics
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Donald Richie's A Hundred Years of Film is a chronicle of film's history throughout the 20th century. Richie's publication is comprised of five chapters which journey alongside the film industry chronologically from its inception in 1897 to the turn of the 21st century. Richie closely follows aesthetic developments, the innovation of new filmographic techniques, and vividly depicts the trend of film's swaying between what can be considered uniquely Japanese and contemporary modes blending western technique and style. Richie also delves into the wider socio-political context in which film was evolving in the 20th century. This book review examines two primary themes that prevail throughout Donald Richie's work: film's oscillation between traditional and contemporary aesthetics and further implications for society; and film's role as an instrument for social criticism and political indoctrination. The ultimate aim of this book review is to highlight the impeccable quality of Richie's work and demonstrate that film is indeed a window through which we may gain a deeper understanding of cinema's impact of Japan's history, culture, and politics.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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".