Exclusive: Anita Rocha da Silveira ("Kill Me Please") directs the Brazilian thriller, in theaters July 29. You can run but you cannot hide — not even behind a blank mask of devotion. “Medusa,” Anita ...
The 'Kill Me Please' director’s new film is a more uneven but stylistically bold satire of Brazilian youth in thrall to reactionary trends. Brazilian writer-director Anita Rocha de Silveira made a ...
The image is stark and shocking. A decapitated head, her eyes open, her mouth agape in a silent scream, her hair a nest of still-hissing snakes. Blood pours out from her severed neck. She is not quite ...
This essay explores the mythic Medusa archetype, used as a symbol of female psychic power in the writings of Angela Carter, Margaret At wood, Iris Murdoch, and Sylvia Plath.