Musical echoes of a trauma: Listening to phantasms in the dark fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
This article examines how music in the film Pan’s Labyrinth [El laberinto del fauno] conceptually generates opposing phantasms. Reflecting the trauma of early Francoism, specifically the Spanish Civil War, the soundtrack oscillates between the disquieting chronological reality and the fasci...
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| Language: | English |
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Institute of Musicology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Muzikologija |
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| Online Access: | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-9814/2024/1450-98142437111B.pdf |
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| Summary: | This article examines how music in the film Pan’s Labyrinth [El laberinto del
fauno] conceptually generates opposing phantasms. Reflecting the trauma of
early Francoism, specifically the Spanish Civil War, the soundtrack
oscillates between the disquieting chronological reality and the fascinating
yet terrifying fairytale world. A special space is devoted to the musical
redistribution of the sensible, mirroring the strong affective, aesthetic,
emancipatory, and phantasmatic potential of Foley sounds. Such musical
resistance undermines phallic authority, fostering a phantasmatic conflict
that blurs the boundaries between imaginable and unimaginable reality. |
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| ISSN: | 1450-9814 2406-0976 |