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"18 Julia Kristeva, 'Giotto's Joy', in Kristeva, Desire in Language: A Semiotic
Approach to Literature and Art, ed Leon S. Rondiez, trans. Thomas Gora, Alice
Jardine and Leon S. Rondiez (Oxford: Blackwell, 1980), pp. 210-36. 19 Ibid., pp.
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choices, find both power and pleasure in identifying not only with a sadist's
control but also with a masochist's abandon'.20 Her conclusion is that such films
keep in play a range of ..."
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