Journal of Popular Film and Television, September 22nd, 1998
American motion pictures feature a curiously recurring situation where a white woman or child is about to be killed by a loved one. The scene typically occurs within the context of racial conflict and addresses what appears to be the unspeakably savage violence anticipated of the other. Such situations represent an act of transgression that is never simple and easy to figure out in terms of victim and victimizer or good and evil. Such acts of transgression are evaluated in a series of films.
Transgression is an action which involves the limit, that narrow zone of a line where it displays the ...
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