And, as the details have emerged of her disappearance — her possible killing at the hands of Madsen (who claims her death was an accident), the purposeful dismemberment of her corpse, and Madsen's dumping of her body in the sea — the unjustness of her absence has been magnified.
Rose McGowan overcame her zombie-inflicted dismemberment with pride in Planet Terror, but the most savage maiming of the year befell Grindhouse itself.
Having being hoisted out of the games by anti-government forces at the end of Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen (a typically no-nonsense Jennifer Lawrence) finds herself being fashioned as a poster girl for the uprising – styled and manipulated by the underground in the same way that the Capitol once dolled her up for TV dismemberment.
These structural factors leading to Shelly's death belies traditional framing of transgender homicides as primarily hate crimes, although the gruesome dismemberment characterizing her and other murders reveals a venomous dehumanization.
King didn't appear ready to drop his personal inquiry, however, first asking Rosenbaum if she had a "moral position" on "fetal dismemberment," then asking her if she would feel comfortable witnessing the procedure.
Police have no firm motive in the slaying and dismemberment of Byrd, but they theorize her death may have stemmed from her son's jealousy over the attention she lavished on his younger, mentally challenged brother, the senior law enforcement source said.
So why is he directing and choreographing the tiny-budget Fringe musical "Terms of Dismemberment," about a woman who sells her daughters' body parts to pay off her dead husband's Mafia debts?
In her own telling, this led to a fascination with dismemberment – with seeing humanity as an assembly of body-parts – that would inform her work for the rest of her life.
Ms. Ronan, whose first name is pronounced "sur-sha," plays Susie Salmon, the murder, rape and dismemberment victim who narrates the story after her death, from a lovely fantasy world filled with beautiful clouds, mountains and trees.
In her catalogue essay for the Guggenheim show, Katherine Brinson links this dismemberment of relatively unimportant but still genuine art works to "the dense compression and intermingling of narrative strata that is the hallmark of his work".
