The Unquiet Man —The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) and the Aesthetics of Marginality

Martin McDonagh’s last work, The Banshees of Inisherin, received numerous nominations at various award ceremonies, as well as widespread critical acclaim. It was fairly successful at the box office and reinforced McDonagh’s fame as the enfant terrible of Irish letters and filmmaking, famous both as...

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Publicado no:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/miranda,
Autor principal: Gelly, Christophe
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado em: Miranda 2025
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Acesso em linha:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Resumo:Martin McDonagh’s last work, The Banshees of Inisherin, received numerous nominations at various award ceremonies, as well as widespread critical acclaim. It was fairly successful at the box office and reinforced McDonagh’s fame as the enfant terrible of Irish letters and filmmaking, famous both as a director and as a playwright, noted for the violence of his plots and his bizarre and provocative subject matters (Pilny; Cornwell, 296-7). It deals indeed with a fairly gruesome and absurd stor...