The content is produced solely by The Conversation. Fairy tales have always had amazing, wearable tech: from the red shoes and the glass slipper to Puss’s boots. Disney’s latest princess ...

While The Red Shoes uses heightened visuals and a fairy tale ballet to ratchet up the psychological tension, it still speaks to one of the issues that has dogged women for the past century.

"Even by fairy-tale standards, Hans Christian ... out as especially bleak," said Dave Fargnoli in The Stage. "The Red Shoes" (1845) is about an orphan girl who is bewitched by a pair of red ...

The magical transformations in fairy tales, fiction, fashion and film tell ... Charles Perrault's Donkeyskin or Hans Christian Andersen's The Red Shoes, it's the object that can turn boys into ...

FAIRY TALE, by Stephen King Stephen King is no stranger ... “a knotted white line” ending in “a dime-sized red blemish that looked like a tiny unopened rose.” (How Leah manages a drink ...

Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world ... get up close to the magic as playwright Nancy Harris brings Hans Christian Andersen’s dark fairy tale into the 21st century in the ...

The content is produced solely by The Conversation. Fairy tales have always had amazing, wearable tech: from the red shoes and the glass slipper to Puss’s boots. Disney’s latest princess ...