All Outputs (6)

“Anthropological curiosity or mere prurience?”: Literary Pilgrimage and Unpacking the Tourist Gaze in Angela Carter’s ‘A Fertility Festival’ (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C., & Ikoma, N. (2019, September). “Anthropological curiosity or mere prurience?”: Literary Pilgrimage and Unpacking the Tourist Gaze in Angela Carter’s ‘A Fertility Festival’. Paper presented at At the Crossroads of Doubt: Anthropology and Anglophone Travel Writing, Sorbonne University, Paris

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
Crofts, C. (2019, August). Cary Grant: From Knockabout to Knockout

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
Crofts, C. (2019, July). “Landscapes of the heart”: Adapting Angela Carter’s Japanese writings for the screen. Paper presented at Media journeys: Journal of adaptation in film and performance looking back, stepping forward, 2019, University of East Anglia

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
Crofts, C. (2019, June). Archie in the Big Apple: Mapping Cary Grant’s transformative New York years. Paper presented at Fan Studies Network 2019 Conference, University of Portsmouth

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
Crofts, C. (2019, March). Adapting "Flesh and the Mirror": Bunraku, Narrative Metalepsis and Puppet Porn. Presented at Research Seminar on Angela Carter and Japan, International Christian University, Tokyo

Lost Cinemas of Castle Park, Digital Curation and the City (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2019, January). Lost Cinemas of Castle Park, Digital Curation and the City. Presented at The Digital City of Culture: Research Development and the Digital Ecology of Coventry 2021, University of Coventry

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