Tracing the Carnival Spirit in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Feminist Reworkings of the Grotesque
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Taking Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS)as a platform of analysis, Sherman traces the connections and contradictions between the bodies in Bakhtin, Anzaldua, and Haraway. Arguing that a reconfigured carnival spirit finds its way into BtVS, Sherman explores the ways in which BtVS offers both sporadic visions of cosmic unity and liberation, as well as a committed political vision of coalition in service of justice. Foregrounding the political meaning of the grotesque and contradictory body, Sherman highlights the opposition between the temporary liberation of Bakhtin's carnival as defined by the always already outside society body of the morbid maternal, and the space of politics centrally defined by the Mestiza/Queer or cyborg. Sherman interrogates monstrous modes of reproduction and their theoretical offspring, exploring how society is imagined in each theory by such reproduction.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.061 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.011 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".