The power of imagination In The Red Shoes

In the 1948 movie The Red Shoes, the power of imagination and artistic vocation are metaphorically represented as a pair of red dancing shoes. Just as in Andersen’s fable, the shoes are enchanted: they can open up new horizons and possibilities of existence and artistic expression to the one that we...

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Main Author: Kamila Drapało
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Language:deu
Published: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Chrześcijańskiej Akademii Teologicznej w Warszawie (Scientific Publishing House of the Christian Academy of Theology in Warsaw) 2023-09-01
Series:Studia z Teorii Wychowania
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Online Access:http://sztw.chat.edu.pl/gicid/01.3001.0053.9099
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description In the 1948 movie The Red Shoes, the power of imagination and artistic vocation are metaphorically represented as a pair of red dancing shoes. Just as in Andersen’s fable, the shoes are enchanted: they can open up new horizons and possibilities of existence and artistic expression to the one that wears them. But their inexhaustible power can also possess her, demand complete devotion, or even dance her to death. A hermeneutic reading of the three key scenes from the movie inspires a reflection on the dialectics of the power of imagination and its productive as well as destructive potential.
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spelling doaj-art-6d8f398511d34582aa01e698285bc4072025-08-20T03:11:29ZdeuWydawnictwo Naukowe Chrześcijańskiej Akademii Teologicznej w Warszawie (Scientific Publishing House of the Christian Academy of Theology in Warsaw)Studia z Teorii Wychowania2083-09982719-40782023-09-01XIV2 (43)29530710.5604/01.3001.0053.909901.3001.0053.9099The power of imagination In The Red ShoesKamila Drapało0University of Bialystok, PolandIn the 1948 movie The Red Shoes, the power of imagination and artistic vocation are metaphorically represented as a pair of red dancing shoes. Just as in Andersen’s fable, the shoes are enchanted: they can open up new horizons and possibilities of existence and artistic expression to the one that wears them. But their inexhaustible power can also possess her, demand complete devotion, or even dance her to death. A hermeneutic reading of the three key scenes from the movie inspires a reflection on the dialectics of the power of imagination and its productive as well as destructive potential.http://sztw.chat.edu.pl/gicid/01.3001.0053.9099ImaginationPowerThe Red ShoesVocationViolenceHermeneutics
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The Red Shoes
Vocation
Violence
Hermeneutics
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Vocation
Violence
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