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Popular Culture Review
Ms. 45
In 1981, Ferrara released a frenetic psychodrama titled Ms. 45, which
starred Zoe Tamerlis as Thana, a mute garment worker in New York City who is
raped twice in the same afternoon. She manages to kill her second attacker with
an iron. She then dismembers the body in the bathtub, bags and refrigerates the
segmented appendages in order to conveniently dispose of the parts, one by one,
throughout the city. Armed with the dead man’s gun, she kills another potential
assailant, then engages in an a