The Witching Hour: Contemporary Feminist Representations of Witchcraft and the Witch in Suspiria and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The witch has become an all-encompassing metaphor for a wide range of theoretical perspectives and interpretations. In this thesis, I want to emphasize how the creative teams that worked on Suspiria and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina work with the body of the witch as well as how both cinematic pieces work with the trope of the Mother, the Maiden, and the Crone, an archetype popularized by Wiccan theology but also used in Celtic and Hellenic mythology, while simultaneously focusing on how the aforementioned theories work together to make the body and idea of the witch a patriarchal, theoretical, and socio-political nightmare. While both works stem from different cinematic and narrative traditions – one teen horror and the other art house – they both examine complex relationships between symbolic meaning and pre-linguistic, or semiotic, spaces. Faculty Mentor: Jillian Skeffington Department: English (Honours)
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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 | 0.012 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it