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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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Institute of Musicology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2024-01-01
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-bc2d76ca615f42599fa89ca7640ac7b82025-08-20T02:56:37ZengSerbian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Institute of Musicology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and ArtsMuzikologija1450-98142406-09762024-01-0120243711113510.2298/MUZ2437111B1450-98142437111BMusical echoes of a trauma: Listening to phantasms in the dark fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)Buljančević Rastko0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6247-8163Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg + Graduate School “The Future of Democracy: Cultural Analyses of Illiberal Populism in Times of Crises (FUDEM),” SwedenThis 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.https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-9814/2024/1450-98142437111B.pdfpan’s labyrinth [el laberinto del fauno]guillermo del torosoundtrackphantasmcultural traumadistribution of the sensible |
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| title | Musical echoes of a trauma: Listening to phantasms in the dark fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) |
| title_full | Musical echoes of a trauma: Listening to phantasms in the dark fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) |
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| title_short | Musical echoes of a trauma: Listening to phantasms in the dark fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) |
| title_sort | musical echoes of a trauma listening to phantasms in the dark fantasy pan s labyrinth 2006 |
| topic | pan’s labyrinth [el laberinto del fauno] guillermo del toro soundtrack phantasm cultural trauma distribution of the sensible |
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