Dr Charlotte Crofts' Outputs (4)

“Anthropological curiosity or mere prurience?”: Literary Pilgrimage and Unpacking the Tourist Gaze in Angela Carter’s ‘A Fertility Festival’ (2019)
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British novelist Angela Carter lived in Japan between 1969 and 1972, around the same time of Roland Barthes' visit, documented in Empire of Signs (1970). Unlike Barthes, however, Carter's was a gendered experience, and she claims that ther... Read More about “Anthropological curiosity or mere prurience?”: Literary Pilgrimage and Unpacking the Tourist Gaze in Angela Carter’s ‘A Fertility Festival’.

Cary Grant: From Knockabout to Knockout (2019)
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BFI Cary Grant Season Aug/Sept 2019
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Cary Grant: From Knockabout to Knockout

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Cary Grant’s screen persona was clearly a construction, so much so that he is famously quoted as saying “Everybody wants to be Cary Grant... Read More about Cary Grant: From Knockabout to Knockout.

Adapting "Flesh and the Mirror": Bunraku, Narrative Metalepsis and Puppet Porn (2019)
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Lost Cinemas of Castle Park, Digital Curation and the City (2019)
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Presentation for Coventry City of Culture 2021, invited, plus fee and expenses.