Musical echoes of a trauma
Listening to phantasms in the dark fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21716726 |
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| Authors | Rastko Buljančević (0000-0001-6247-8163, Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg + Graduate School “The Future of Democracy: Cultural Analyses of Illiberal Populism in Times of Crises (FUDEM),” Sweden, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Issue | 37 |
| Pages | 111-135 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Muzikologija (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1450-9814 • E-ISSN: 2406-0976 |
| Publisher | National Library of Serbia (PUBLISHER • RS) |
| DOI | 10.2298/muz2437111b |
| OpenAlex | W4407796576 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
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
Active listening · Art · Fantasy · Literature · Musical · Communication · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Highly cited | No |
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