Editing The Red Shoes (1948 film) (section)

===Genre===
The question of genre in relationship of ''The Red Shoes'' has been a recurrent preoccupation of both critics and scholars, as it does not neatly fit within the confines of a single genre.{{sfn|McLean|1988|p=47}} While the film's extended ballet sequences led some to characterise the film as a [[musical film|musical]], McLean notes that the "conventional signals that had allowed fantasy elements to occur in other [musical] films are missing in ''The Red Shoes''."{{sfn|McLean|1988|p=47}} Fraser contests that the film is not emblematic of the standard musical as it has a tragic and violent resolution, and that it is best understood as a "prototype of a generic variation" emerging from the musical film tradition.{{sfn|Fraser|1987|p=53}}

The 21st-century critic [[Peter Bradshaw]] identifies elements of [[horror film|horror]] in the film, particularly in its central, surreal ballet sequence, which he likens to "the surface of [[Lewis Carroll]]'s looking-glass, through which the viewer is transported into a new world of amazement and occult horror."<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London, England|last=Bradshaw|first=Peter|title=The Red Shoes|date=10 December 2009|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/dec/10/the-red-shoes-film-review|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206084425/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/dec/10/the-red-shoes-film-review|archive-date=6 February 2017}}</ref>