In the essay "Puer Wounds and Ulysses Scarr" in Senex and Puer, Hillman explains that the act of healing is not "because one is whole, integrated, and all together, but from a consciousness breaking through dismemberment" (234).
The Dead Space experience is all about surviving in its sci-fi world through strategic dismemberment, so experience the horror before the Necromorphs dismember you.
In 1983, Whitehouse, founder of the National Viewers and Listeners Associationon, demanded members of the House of Commons squirm their way through scenes of decapitation, dismemberment and tree-rape culled from Sam Raimi's micro-budget splatter classic, The Evil Dead, in an attempt to force the government to clamp down on the then-burgeoning video-rental industry.
Having blithely wandered through the death and dismemberment of the car accident, Fuckhead finds himself at a hospital where the victims and victims' families are being brought in.
Looking back through a nightmarish haze of dismemberment, I couldn't help but wonder…Is Michael Myers the real Mr. Big?
I'm talking about knowing the history of crime – pause, close-up of raised eyebrows – and using it to our advantage!" It was a fitting opening for the third series of Whitechapel – the primetime penny dreadful that views London as a sort of neo-Victorian dismemberment theme park in which stupefied dibbles stagger through a succession of investigational peasoupers with the grace of pantomime cows.
Whipple describes Pitkin's dismemberment — "lovingly," Dickstein adds — and tells his audience that, through Pitkin's hard work and enthusiastic martyrdom, "America became again American".
In them, war is deglamorized through shattering images of human suffering: hanging, shooting, dismemberment, rape, starvation and other atrocities, along with scenes of courage and fortitude.
I loved Whitechapel (ITV1), the barking "pantocrime" procedural in which London is depicted as a sort of neo-Victorian dismemberment theme park, with DI Milquetoast Rupertt Penry-Jones) and DS Bastard (Phil Davis) gulping their way through a trio of preposterous investigational peasoupers.
"[Los Zetas] generate terror through the news media and social networks with the decapitations, dismemberment, hanging people from bridges, the narco-banners... all of it is a strategy that for them generates a brand.
