Description

• Title:
  Anima(l) Moralia, or Righteous Anger: Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor (2017)
• Creator:
  Ostrowska, Elżbieta
• Contributor:
  Uniwersytet Łódzki;
  elzbieta.ostrowska@filologia.uni.lodz.pl
• Description:
  Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor (Pokot, 2017), an adaptation of Olga Tokarczuk’s novel Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead (2009), tells the story of an old woman, Janina Duszejko (Agnieszka Mandat), who advocates for animal rights and uses every measure to fight the local hunting culture. Due to the centrality of the relationship between human beings and the world of nature, Holland’s film refers to the recent debates aimed at de-centralizing the human subject. This article will argue, however, that despite its attempt to alter the human–animal relationship, Spoor conveys anthropocentric perspectives and as such it does not participate in the “non-human turn.” Instead, the film can be linked to the “emotional turn” taking precedence in the humanities during the last two decades, in that it expresses the director’s affective response to the political realities of contemporary 20 Poland, especially its unshaken patriarchal power, which subordinates the social margins.;
  This work was supported by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 5 2014–2021 nr 2020/37/K/HS2/02327.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Elżbieta Ostrowska;
  Uznanie autorstwa 4.0 Międzynarodowe;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
• Date:
  2024.04.10;
  2024
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Edinburgh University Press
• Relation:
  Film-Philosophy;
• Subject:
  Non-human turn;
  emotional turn;
  anthropocentrism;
  Polish cinema;
  women’s cinema;
  affect
• Identifier:
  1466-4615;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/51584
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  image