Cary Grant, see under "Charm" (2024)
Digital Artefact
Crofts, C. (2024). Cary Grant, see under "Charm". [Video]

This contribution to the Screen Stars Dictionary explores Cary Grant, under the word "Charm". SCREEN STARS DICTIONARY The Screen Stars Dictionary begins as a joint project between Tecmerin. Journal of Audiovisual Essays and Ariel Avissar. Inspir... Read More about Cary Grant, see under "Charm".

Raising Cary Grant, The Bristol Footsteps of Archie Leach (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Crofts, C. Raising Cary Grant, The Bristol Footsteps of Archie Leach. [Theatre Walk]. Exhibited at Bristol. 18 November 2023 - 19 November 2023. (Unpublished)

The University of the West of England and Cary Comes Home Festival present an all-new immersive actor-led theatre walk in partnership with Show Of Strength Theatre Company, using language and location to explore the transformation of Bristol-born Arc... Read More about Raising Cary Grant, The Bristol Footsteps of Archie Leach.

The burden of expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's Small Axe films? (2023)
Book Chapter
Francis, P. (2023). The burden of expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's Small Axe films?. In T. Austin (Ed.), ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen (1-226). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Prime time Sunday evening viewing across five weeks of Steve McQueen's penology offered the opportunity to give volume to the silenced, to offer an alternative social historical account of the plurality of the Black British experience, to represent... Read More about The burden of expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's Small Axe films?.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: Online talk with Irene Lusztig (2023)
Digital Artefact
Francis, P. (2023). When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: Online talk with Irene Lusztig. [Online Talk]

When I Dare To Be Powerful Online Talk Series. When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists to answer pressing questions relating to... Read More about When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: Online talk with Irene Lusztig.

Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice? (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Francis, P. (2023, June). Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice?. Paper presented at Oral History Society Making Histories Together Conference 2023, Nottingham

In 2020, documentary filmmaker Reece Auguiste and his colleagues speculated that ‘[c]o-creation functions as a utopian idea that may never be fully actualized.’ Co-creation and collaboration are concepts that dissemble the power and control intrinsic... Read More about Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice?.

Black Lives Matter: How the UK movement struggled to be heard (2023)
Other
Francis, P. (2023). Black Lives Matter: How the UK movement struggled to be heard. [Online Newspaper Journal]

In response to the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, international protests under the banner of the Black Lives Matter movement asserted the global inequity of the Black experience. But the Black Lives Matter movement was formed much earlier than... Read More about Black Lives Matter: How the UK movement struggled to be heard.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ja' Tovia Monique Gary (2023)
Digital Artefact
Francis, P. (2023). When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ja' Tovia Monique Gary. [Podcast]

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference Podcast Series. When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists to answer pressing... Read More about When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ja' Tovia Monique Gary.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference. In conversation with Olivia Lopez Calderon (2023)
Digital Artefact
Francis, P. (2023). When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference. In conversation with Olivia Lopez Calderon. [Podcast]

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference Podcast Series. When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists to answer pressing... Read More about When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference. In conversation with Olivia Lopez Calderon.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ally Zlatar (2023)
Digital Artefact
Francis, P. (2023). When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ally Zlatar. [Podcast]

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference Podcast Series. When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists to answer pressing... Read More about When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ally Zlatar.

When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Francis, P. (2023, April). When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference. Presented at When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference, Nottingham and also onnline

Centred on voice as a lens through which we conceive of a social alterity that undermines current ideological dominance, 'When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference' would like to invite proposals from academics, practitioners and activists... Read More about When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference.

They will be heard: Representing and re-presenting voices of marginalised and racialised women through film (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Francis, P. (2022, September). They will be heard: Representing and re-presenting voices of marginalised and racialised women through film. Paper presented at 12th Annual Conference in Political Economy, Bologna, Italy

Set within the context of populism, patriarchy and the debilitating legacy of colonialism, The Art of Oppression follows three artists as they each rise to the challenge of creating a new work for the film. The women, award-winning artists, are as di... Read More about They will be heard: Representing and re-presenting voices of marginalised and racialised women through film.

Through the "magic mirror": Adapting Angela Carter's Japanese writings for the silver screen (2022)
Journal Article
Crofts, C. (2022). Through the "magic mirror": Adapting Angela Carter's Japanese writings for the silver screen. Contemporary Women's Writing, 16(2), 263-282. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad001

This article outlines the development of a feature-length screenplay adaptation of Angela Carter’s short story “Flesh and the Mirror,” situating it within a critical discussion of her metaleptic narrative strategies and the challenges of translating... Read More about Through the "magic mirror": Adapting Angela Carter's Japanese writings for the silver screen.

Re-visioning cultural, historical and gendered aspects of Nottingham's past and present (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Francis, P. (2022, June). Re-visioning cultural, historical and gendered aspects of Nottingham's past and present. Paper presented at Arts and Humanities Research Conference, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham

Unmasking the other: Danger and difference in Hammer's colonial horrors (2021)
Book Chapter
Hyder, R. (2021). Unmasking the other: Danger and difference in Hammer's colonial horrors. In M. Boissonneau, G. Menegaldo, & A. Paquet-Deyris (Eds.), Dark Recesses in the House of Hammer (223-240). Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

Adivasi life and folklore event (2021)
Digital Artefact
Francis, P. Adivasi life and folklore event. [Online]

Seral Murmu is an Adivasi filmmaker from Jharkhand in India whose films draw on oral Adivasi narratives, magical realism and experimental cinematography. His film Sondhayni (2019), for example, is a modern folktale that critiques the exploitation and... Read More about Adivasi life and folklore event.

Visualising the muted effects of dissenting women's voices (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Francis, P. (2021, December). Visualising the muted effects of dissenting women's voices. Paper presented at Leicester Human Right Arts and Film Festival, Leicester, UK

The environmental crisis, inequality, anti-trans discrimination and racism are some of the most pressing issues of our times. Can artists credibly claim engage with pressing issues? When does art become a form of activism? Why might we need arts ac... Read More about Visualising the muted effects of dissenting women's voices.

Inside Cinema Shorts: 80. Cary Grant (2021)
Digital Artefact
Crofts, C. (2021). Inside Cinema Shorts: 80. Cary Grant. [Online Video]

How a working class boy from Bristol became one of the brightest stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, the height of silver-screen sophistication in films ranging from His Girl Friday and An Affair to Remember, to Bringing Up Baby and North By Northw... Read More about Inside Cinema Shorts: 80. Cary Grant.

Intro to finding coherence across journals: Guidelines and criteria for making, curating, and publishing video essays (2021)
Digital Artefact
Crofts, C. (2021). Intro to finding coherence across journals: Guidelines and criteria for making, curating, and publishing video essays. [Video Presentation]

An increasing number of journals and conferences are opening up to non-conventional academic formats, with consideration of creative methods and productions, such as video essays. For instance, the free open community-led digital archive for media,... Read More about Intro to finding coherence across journals: Guidelines and criteria for making, curating, and publishing video essays.

And some of us are silenced (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Francis, P. (2021, September). And some of us are silenced. Paper presented at 14th Annual Contemporary Directors Symposium, Online, University of Sussex

In Mangrove the first of the Small Axe films, bio-chemist student Althea says “We need to challenge the system… We mustn’t be victims but protagonists of our stories and what better way of representing ourselves but self-representing ourselves.” A bo... Read More about And some of us are silenced.

Dare (2021)
Digital Artefact
Banks, E., & White, J. (2021). Dare. [Digital Video]

Synopsis 14 year old Jess is excited when Jake asks her out after a game of Dare one day after school. However, Jake has a particular plan in mind which will change her feelings for him and her approach to relationships forever. 'Dare' is a 15 mi... Read More about Dare.