Is it 'Their Song'?: Irish Screen Studies Keynote Lecture

Recorded May 12, 2023. An in-person lecture by Prof Richard
Dyer(King's College London) as part of the Irish Screen Studies
seminar organised by the Department of Film in the School of
Creative Arts. This paper by Professor Richard Dyer starts from a
consideration of the trope of ‘our song’, the song, that is, that
film characters feel in some way is associated with or even
expresses their relationship – ‘As Time Goes By’ in Casablanca
(1942) is perhaps the most famous example. It then considers how
often such songs turn out to be illusory, looking especially at
three relatively recent European examples, and arguing that the
problem of ‘our song’ never really being ‘ours’, always escaping
us, is in little the contradiction at the heart of communication.
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