The Island as Landscape and Landschaft: Phenomenolo- gical Attempts at Interpreting the Landscape in The Ban- shees of Inisherin Cover Image

Wyspa jako landscape i Landschaft. Fenomenologiczne próby odczytania krajobrazu w Duchach Inisherin
The Island as Landscape and Landschaft: Phenomenolo- gical Attempts at Interpreting the Landscape in The Ban- shees of Inisherin

Author(s): Anna Boguska
Subject(s): Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Martin McDonagh; landscape; Landschaft; island; Irish cinema;

Summary/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 pro- poses 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 con- cept 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.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 122
  • Page Range: 86-106
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish