Stars: The configuration and trajectory of women in Chinese cinema during the first half of the Twentieth Century
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract In this thesis I will explore the figure and configuration of women in twentieth century Chinese cinema. I begin my investigation by establishing a more general understanding of how the cinema, as a structure of modernity, functions in relation to the formation of modern subjectivity, sensibility, and everyday life. I then narrow my investigation to the evolution of the cinema in the specific context of twentieth century China. In so doing, I establish how the evolution of the cinema and the figure and configuration of women developed in relation to the forging a new national identity. Through a discussion of the 1920s nüxiapian subgenre, New Woman (1935), and Song of Youth (1959), I trace the development of the figure of women in the cinema through major periods in modern Chinese history, thus, exposing the ideological investment in specific representations. My investigation reveals the political, and not merely sexually political, implications of the representation and circulation of the figure of the woman in modern Chinese culture.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".