ABSTRACT
Transgression involves an apparent violation of accepted or imposed boundaries, especially those of social acceptability. The concept itself has a critical history within the arts whereby orthodox cultural, moral, and artistic boundaries are challenged by the representation of unconventional behaviour and the use of experimental forms. I think it is here that we face one of the critical problems when attempting to define transgression in relation to cult cinema; namely that both the terms ‘subversion’ and ‘transgression’ have been confused in the discourse surrounding cult cinema and used interchangeably when they do not mean the same thing.
