Popular Bodies, Canonical Voices: Paula Vogel's <i>Hot ‘n’ Throbbing</i> as Performative Burlesque
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Since many of Paula Vogel's plays rewrite canonical texts, position women centre stage, and use humour to approach uncomfortable topics, her plays employ a dramaturgical strategy that might be called a “performative burlesque.” As both a historical form and a dramaturgical strategy, burlesque is part of the history and theory of performance. While camp is the broader aesthetic within which Vogel works, burlesque foregrounds an eroticized female spectacle. Hot ‘n’ Throbbing responds to a history of discursive violence, positioning that history alongside the embodied history of the stripper. These two strands of history are enacted by the figures of “The Voice” (male) and the “Voice Over” (female). In this play, Vogel juxtaposes bodies and voices, high and low cultural forms, and sexuality and violence, highlighting the ambiguous functions of the sexualized female body in popular culture, as it both enacts and contradicts the voices of legitimate history.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 teacher head, 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".