Musical echoes of a trauma: Listening to phantasms in the dark fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Source: Muzikologija
DOI: 10.2298/muz2437111b
Author: Rastko Buljancevic
Institution: University of Gothenburg
Language: English
Topic: Spanish Culture and Identity
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4407796576