The Island as Landscape and “Landschaft”: Phenomenological Attempts at Interpreting the Landscape in “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Anna Boguska
anna.boguska@ispan.edu.plInstitute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5307-2241
Abstract
The article is an attempt to analyse the film The Banshees of Inisherin (2022), directed by Martin McDonagh, from the perspective of landscape phenomenology. The author proposes to read the meanings of the film by identifying the protagonists’ two different ways of inhabiting the island. The figure of Pádraic is associated with the German concept of Landschaft, which she defines as the “landscape of identity”. The English concept of landscape, associated with “the sublime”, is identified with Colm’s way of living.
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Martin McDonagh, landscape, Landschaft, island, Irish cinemaReferences
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Anna Boguskaanna.boguska@ispan.edu.pl
Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5307-2241
Literary and cultural studies scholar, PhD in the Humanities; Assistant Professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. Author of the book Życie na wyspach. Chorwacka współczesna proza insularna [Life on the Islands: Contemporary Croatian Insular Fiction] (2020). She is currently preparing a book on the category of fear in Croatian war films made after 1990. Research interests: contemporary Croatian (especially insular) prose, utopian and dystopian studies, Croatian film, history of ideas, and history of philosophy.
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