Action and Agency in The Red Shoes

In this paper, I argue that Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's ballet musical The Red Shoes (1948) is concerned with topics surrounding phenomenology, action, and embodied agency, and that it exploits resources that are uniquely cinematic in order to “do philosophy.” I argue that the film...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paul Schofield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh University Press 2018-10-01
Series:Film-Philosophy
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Online Access:https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/film.2018.0091