Dr Charlotte Crofts' Outputs (92)

Keep calm and Cary online: Cary comes home festival and online film culture during the pandemic (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Cary Comes Home festival seeks to celebrate Cary Grant’s Bristol roots, develop new audiences for his work and recreate the golden age of cinema going – but how does that work during a global pandemic?!

In this presentation I will explore the... Read More about Keep calm and Cary online: Cary comes home festival and online film culture during the pandemic.

Cary Grant Comes Home festival events feedback (2021)
Report

Event evaluation report and participant feedback on Looking for Archie Walking Tour, New York Centenary online events, Mark Glancy online talk, and Cary Comes Home for the Weekend online festival.

Mark Glancy, ‘Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend,' UK book launch (2021)
Digital Artefact

On what would have been Cary Grant’s 117th birthday, Mark Glancy – whose new book launches in the UK this week – talks about Cary Grant’s experiences growing up in Bristol, England, including startling new revelations about his family history, follow... Read More about Mark Glancy, ‘Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend,' UK book launch.

Intro to finding coherence across journals: Guidelines and criteria for making, curating, and publishing video essays (2020)
Digital Artefact

The Introductory Guide to Video Essays was officially launched on 14 December 2020 at an online event organised by Learning on Screen in collaboration with SOAS, University of London. The launch event brought together pioneering scholars and educator... Read More about Intro to finding coherence across journals: Guidelines and criteria for making, curating, and publishing video essays.

An evening without Cary Grant (2020)
Digital Artefact

‘An Evening Without Cary Grant’, commemorating the anniversary of Cary Grant’s death with Douglas J Miller who was there when he died, 29 Nov.

On 29 November 1986, Cary Grant died in Davenport Iowa on tour with his A Conversation With Cary Grant... Read More about An evening without Cary Grant.

"Truly it felt like year one": A tour of Angela Carter's 1960s Bristol (2020)
Digital Artefact

A Tour of Angela Carter's 1960s Bristol’ virtual tour by Angela Carter Society at Being Human Festival of the Humanities, 14 Nov.

Join author Dr Stephen Hunt (Angela Carter’s Provincial Bohemia) on a virtual tour of Angela Carter’s 1960s Bristol,... Read More about "Truly it felt like year one": A tour of Angela Carter's 1960s Bristol.

Sneak peek at Mark Glancy's 'Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend’end’ (2020)
Digital Artefact

Academic and author Mark Glancy joins Charlotte Crofts, director of the Cary Comes Home Festival, for a sneak peek of his new book, Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend (OUP, 2020) which is published in the USA on 15 October and will be out i... Read More about Sneak peek at Mark Glancy's 'Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend’end’.

Angela Carter’s “three dimensional storytelling”: Adaptation, intermediality and textual transmogrification (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will explore the translation of Angela Carter’s work into different media, through an analysis of Carter’s own involvement with various adaptations of her work across radio and film, together with a critical reflection on a practice-resear... Read More about Angela Carter’s “three dimensional storytelling”: Adaptation, intermediality and textual transmogrification.

Localising Cary Grant: Cary comes home festival and Bristol as living archive (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper critically reflects on curating the biennial Cary Comes Home Festival ( established 2014), which aims to celebrate Cary Grant’s Bristol roots, develop new audiences for his films and recreate the golden age of cinema-going. As director of... Read More about Localising Cary Grant: Cary comes home festival and Bristol as living archive.

“Anthropological curiosity or mere prurience?”: Literary Pilgrimage and Unpacking the Tourist Gaze in Angela Carter’s ‘A Fertility Festival’ (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Abstract:
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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

BFI Cary Grant Season Aug/Sept 2019
Season Intro

Cary Grant: From Knockabout to Knockout

60-word blurb
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.

“Landscapes of the heart”: Adapting Angela Carter’s Japanese writings for the screen (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

British novelist Angela Carter’s experiences living in Japan in the late 1960s and early 1970s had a significant impact on her development as a writer. Carter’s time in Japan ruptured her understanding of her own culture and informed her subversive... Read More about “Landscapes of the heart”: Adapting Angela Carter’s Japanese writings for the screen.

Archie in the Big Apple: Mapping Cary Grant’s transformative New York years (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper explores how the Cary Comes Home festival seeks to engage Cary Grant fans in a sense of pilgrimage to the places of significance in his life, and in his movies. Most often imagined as an American, Cary Grant was born as Archibald Leach in... Read More about Archie in the Big Apple: Mapping Cary Grant’s transformative New York years.

Adapting "Flesh and the Mirror": Bunraku, Narrative Metalepsis and Puppet Porn (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Lost Cinemas of Castle Park, Digital Curation and the City (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation for Coventry City of Culture 2021, invited, plus fee and expenses.

Publishing screen media practice research: Evolving processes of contextualisation, peer review and future proofing in Screenworks (2018)
Journal Article

This article outlines current publishing practices in the field of academic filmmaking through a detailed discussion of the development of Screenworks, a peer-reviewed online publication of practice research in screen media. The imperative for academ... Read More about Publishing screen media practice research: Evolving processes of contextualisation, peer review and future proofing in Screenworks.

Making the pilgrimage: Cary Grant’s hometown, Bristol City of Film (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Film tourism extends to paying homage to not only film locations (“set-jetting”), but also to places that have a physical connection to characters, actors and celebrities, including their place of birth. Global film icon Cary Grant, heralded as the “... Read More about Making the pilgrimage: Cary Grant’s hometown, Bristol City of Film.

Getting published (2018)
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BAFTSS Postgraduate network workshop and panel discussion: ‘Getting published’

"Nothing sacred”: Translating Angela Carter’s transgressive Japanese writings to film (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Angela Carter spent several years in Japan in the late 1960s early 1970s where she claims she "learnt what it is to be a woman and became radicalised". At that time, Japanese culture was undergoing a cultural explosion in response to post-war occupat... Read More about "Nothing sacred”: Translating Angela Carter’s transgressive Japanese writings to film.

Demystifying the REF (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Postgraduate network workshop panel discussion: ‘Demystifying the REF’