Kate Bush, The Red Shoes, The Line, the Cross and the Curve and the Uses of Symbolic Transformation

In Kate Bush’s 1993 album, The Red Shoes, and her film, The Line, the Cross and the Curve, she engages with the symbolism of The Red Shoes fairytale as first depicted in Hans Christian Andersen’s 1845 fairy tale and later developed by the Powell and Pressburger film (1948) of the same name. In Bush’...

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Main Author: Withers, Deborah M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2010
In: Feminist theology
Year: 2010, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 7-19
Further subjects:B Symbolism
B Kabbalah
B Ritual Magick
B Kate Bush
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