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masochistic

adjective Referring to masochism, see there.

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The "logic of masochistic fantasy" is slippery stuff, and Kucich proceeds with caution.

Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class

Thus, she argues, although both Deleuze and Noyes have made crucial contributions to the academic discourse on masochism, they both fail to adequately theorize masochistic aesthetics.

Mennel, Barbara. The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature

Yamatani has said: ''(Some writers) still write masochistic history textbooks, who may respect (Vladimir) Lenin's words.

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In an otherwise compelling analysis of chivalric models of masochistic eroticism in Across the River, Fantina pauses to speculate about Hemingway's relationship with a young Italian woman:

Queer as Papa

Here I am following the influential work of Carol Clover in labeling the slasher genre "cruel cinema," a form of spectorial gazing that dismantles the sadistic-voyeuristic look of traditional Hollywood films and replaces it with a masochistic one.

Imagining murderous mothers: male spectatorship and the American slasher film

Fantina locates a similar masochistic dynamic in Hemingway's work, arguing that although one doesn't find the whip-wielding dominatrix of Sacher-Masoch's novels, Hemingway's male characters continually submit to dominant women, and thus push the boundaries of acceptable masculine behavior.

Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism

Masochistic enjoyment is a substantial component in the construction of the fighting male body as a war machine, but in the 50s war films this component was absent.

Spectacles of pain: war, masculinity and the masochistic fantasy in Amos Gitai's Kippur

In "A Child Is Being Beaten" (1919) Freud gives a very good account of how masochistic sexual impulses find potency and sexual discharge in fantasies about a child getting beaten and humiliated.

'The Woodsman': a different view

It may make people both masochistic and fatalistic.

By his stripes we are healed

The films were shown to a (presumably) masochistic audience.

Images Festival (4/15-24/04)

The aesthetic duel is played out as oedipal revenge play; as witty "deconstruction" of the filmmaking process; and as psychodrama, with Leth in the masochistic role of He Who Gets Slapped.

Leth is more: James Quandt on the five obstructions

And if they don't show this, you can guarantee there will be plenty of other jaw-dropping acts of masochistic mayhem.