Spaces of Ruin in The Banshees of Inisherin

Presented by: Prof. Jason Jacobs and Dr Matthew Cipa

Date: Friday 13 October 2023
Time: 12-1pm
Location: Online via Zoom and in-person at the SCA Writer's Studio (Level 6, Michie Building)


Abstract

The figuring of friendship in cinema is a relatively unexplored area of study. While there are many movies that depict various kinds of human companionship far fewer take it up as a central theme. The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022), set in 1923 on a fictional Irish island, begins at the point when the friendship between Pádraic (Colin Farrell) and Colm (Brendan Gleeson) ends. We never see them as the friends that they once were; we witness, instead, the ruins of what is left behind. As a medium attuned to surfaces, cinema is optimally suited to the representation of the mysterious masks and theatrical peculiarities of human intersubjective relations. Our paper explores how such relations accrue aesthetic force in the film by attending to moments that articulate the consequence of estrangement.


Presenters

Matthew Cipa is lecturer in the School of Communication at the Queensland University of Technology. His monograph, Is Harpo Free? And Other Essays of the Metaphysical Screen is forthcoming with SUNY Press. Jason Jacobs’s latest book is Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives, also with SUNY Press.

Jason Jacobs is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Queensland and author of the BFI TV Classics book on Deadwood, and Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives in the SUNY press series, Horizons of Cinema.


 

About Research Seminar and Workshop Series

 


School of Communication and Arts Research Seminar Series

The research seminar and workshop series occur each semester, each with a different topic and guest speaker from UQ or otherwise.

Friday, 4 August
12-1pm

Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the
SCA Writer's Studio
(Level 6, Michie)

After the Future: Heat, Collapse, and Exhausting the “Future of Work”

Dr Luke Munn

Friday, 25 August
12-1pm

Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the
SCA Writer's Studio
(Level 6, Michie)

Promoting children’s environmental responsibility in the EFL classroomDr Valentina Adami

Friday, 1 September
12-1pm

Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the
SCA Writer's Studio
(Level 6, Michie)

Write FOR your reader vs. writing WITH your reader: human-centred design in professional communication

and

Portraying Asian-diasporic identity beyond the limits of the literary label Asian-Australian

Catriona Arthy

and

Olivia De Zilva

Friday, 8 September
12-1pm

Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the
SCA Writer's Studio
(Level 6, Michie)

Exploring Digital Humanities through the Lens of Journalism: A Case Study of Reader Comment Analysis

Dr Lujain Shafeeq

Friday, 15 September
12-1pm

Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the
SCA Writer's Studio
(Level 6, Michie)

The Medicalised Body - On Illness, Humour, and Sexuality

and

Talkin about the thing that stops me writing about the thing Im talkin about: Hacking and Hofstadter on the looping effect of diagnostic labels and writing the strange double

Carly-Jay Metcalfe and Bianca Millroy

Friday, 22 September
12-1pm

Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the
SCA Writer's Studio
(Level 6, Michie)

Coping with eco-anxiety: A guided journal trialDr Ans Vercammen and Dr Skye Doherty

Friday, 13 October
12-1pm

Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the
SCA Writer's Studio
(Level 6, Michie)

Spaces of Ruin in The Banshees of Inisherin

Prof. Jason Jacobs and Dr Matthew Cipa

Friday, 27 October
1:30-2:30pm

Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the
SCA Writer's Studio
(Level 6, Michie)

‘Digital storytelling’ probably doesn’t mean what you think it meansDr Leah Henrickson

 

Venue

Online via Zoom and in-person at the SCA Writer's Studio (Level 6, Michie Building) https://uqz.zoom.us/j/89597079741