Transgression and Freakery

Mathijs, Ernest (author) / Sexton, Jamie (author)

Cult Cinema ; 97-107

2011-05-10

11 pages

9781444396447 , 9781405173742

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444396447.ch9

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

perceptions and experiences, of transgression and freakery, at the heart of a range of cult , transgression and freakery, desire of cultists ‐ in experiencing something “different” , taboo, a cultural prohibition ‐ an act, seen as morally wrong, central to taboo , Kristeva, applying concepts of taboo and impurity ‐ to semiotics, texts of horror , freakery, context‐specific reception conditions ‐ deviant human bodies, and sites of transgression , transgression and freakery ‐ operating in context‐specific receptions, and cult reputations , sick films, cycles, themes and/or genres ‐ sickening audiences, moments of abjection, impurity and grotesquerie , cult films, ways of enjoying transgression safely ‐ challenging conceptions of normalcy , most notable context‐specific notion ‐ cult cinema's appetite for taboo, grotesquerie, impurity, and “transgression” , abjection, “the state of being cast off” ‐ meaning, where cultural meaning collapses