Gaylan Studlar did some interesting work on masochism and the movies in the late 70's and early 80's, trying to respond to Laura Mulvey's overwhelmingly influential thesis that most pleasure in cinema was played to and derived from the (sadistic) male gaze. His "Masochism and the Perverse Pleasures of Cinema" is the anchor essay in the third edition of the classic Mast/Cohen/Braudy anthology, Film Theory and Criticism
"For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
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website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
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