Status Updates From Cult Cinema: An Introduction

“During the carnival, amorality and immorality are condoned, and impurity and abjection are encouraged. Bakhtin argued that in the Middle Ages the carnival acted as a suspension of established order. While only temporary, it was a means by which to transgress the norms and regulations of official society, and hence an attempt to unhinge its rigid hierarchies (which kept the lower classes “in their place”).

why so many typos 😭