Author Archive for: ‘Helen Dell’
Music for Myth and Fantasy in Two Arthurian Films
Abstract This essay examines music in two Arthurian films: John Boorman’s Excalibur (USA 1981), and the television miniseries Mists of Avalon (USA 2001), directed by Uli Edel. It explores the role of music in the nostalgic desire evoked by the medieval in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century film. From a perspective informed by Lacanian understandings of desire and its lost object (objet (petit) a), …
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