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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".

‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization (2024)
Book Chapter
Crofts, C., & Mulvey Roberts, M. ‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization. In Angela Carter's futures: Representations, adaptations and legacies. Bloomsbury. Manuscript submitted for publication

It is ironic that the iconoclastic Angela Carter was ‘canonized’ as the ‘Good Witch’ of English literature following her death which raises the question of whether this form of commemoration actually contained or limited her reception? This chapter... Read More about ‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization.

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 (Unpublished)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.

Walking in Cary Grant's footsteps: The looking for Archie walking tour (2022)
Book Chapter
Crofts, C. (2022). Walking in Cary Grant's footsteps: The looking for Archie walking tour. In E. Champion, C. Lee, J. Stadler, & R. Moses Peaslee (Eds.), Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes: The Real, the Virtual, and the Cinematic (81-103). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003327585-6

This chapter offers a critical reflection on Looking for Archie, a walking tour of actor Cary Grant’s Bristol, UK, speaking to the themes of “fandom communities and engagement” and “embodied experiences.” The first section outlines the tour and its r... Read More about Walking in Cary Grant's footsteps: The looking for Archie walking tour.

Cockney Cary (2022)
Digital Artefact
Crofts, C., & Naremore, J. (2022). Cockney Cary. [Live-streamed Video Presentation]

Book Launch for James Naremore’s Some Versions of Cary Grant and Cary Comes Home festival programme announcement, 5 October. “Cary Grant famously said, ‘Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant’. His development of that star i... Read More about Cockney Cary.

Introduction: Angela Carter and Japan—A global perspective (2022)
Journal Article
Crofts, C., & Ikoma, N. (2022). Introduction: Angela Carter and Japan—A global perspective. Contemporary Women's Writing, 16(2), 127-134. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpac027

Since her premature death in 1992, Angela Carter has become recognized as one of the most important writers in the English language, with numerous edited collections, theater adaptations, documentaries, and The Bloody Chamber now on the A-Level sylla... Read More about Introduction: Angela Carter and Japan—A global perspective.

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.

Love affairs to remember: Remaking, casting, performance and mise-en-scène’ (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2022, July). Love affairs to remember: Remaking, casting, performance and mise-en-scène’. Paper presented at Screen studies conference, 2022, Glasgow

An Affair to Remember (dir. Leo McCarey, 1957) is an almost shot for shot remake of McCarey’s Love Affair (1939). Subsequent remakes also borrow very heavily from the original, including Love Affair (dir. Gordon Glenn Caron, 1994) and a Bollywood ver... Read More about Love affairs to remember: Remaking, casting, performance and mise-en-scène’.

Coming or going?: Angela Carter’s itinerant subjectivity in “The Quilt Maker” (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2022, June). Coming or going?: Angela Carter’s itinerant subjectivity in “The Quilt Maker”. Presented at ACS Conference 2022: Nomadic texts and subjectivities metamorphic itineraries in/of Angela Carters’ works, 2022, University of Angers, France

In Angela Carter’s neglected short story ‘The Quilt Maker’, the narrator glosses the Japanese word for orgasm, ikimasu, which she learns from her Japanese lover means ‘to go’ rather than ‘to come’: “The Japanese orgasmic departure renders the English... Read More about Coming or going?: Angela Carter’s itinerant subjectivity in “The Quilt Maker”.

Angela Carter’s place-making: memorialising an iconoclast? (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022, March). Angela Carter’s place-making: memorialising an iconoclast?. Presented at Angela Carter: Radical Prescience, University of Chichester

It is ironic that the iconoclastic Angela Carter was "canonised" as the White Witch of English Literature following her death, which raises the question of whether this form of commemoration actually contained or limited her reception? This paper wi... Read More about Angela Carter’s place-making: memorialising an iconoclast?.

Fireworks: Angela Carter's incendiary imagination (2022)
Book Chapter
Crofts, C., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022). Fireworks: Angela Carter's incendiary imagination. In Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries (2022)
Book
Crofts, C., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (Eds.). (2022). Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

Representing a shift in Carter studies for the 21st century, this book critically explores her legacy and showcases the current state of Angela Carter scholarship. It gives new insights into Carter's pyrotechnic creativity and pays tribute to her inc... Read More about Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries.

From Willie Green to Archie Leach: Mapping Bristol’s early cinema history (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2022, January). From Willie Green to Archie Leach: Mapping Bristol’s early cinema history. Presented at UWE Bristol Regional History Centre Event, MShed, Bristol

This is a UWE Bristol Regional History Centre talk in partnership with M Shed seminar series. From Friese-Greene’s early cinema inventions (patented in 1891) to Cary Grant’s iconic screen performances and a thriving film and TV production ecology t... Read More about From Willie Green to Archie Leach: Mapping Bristol’s early cinema history.

Bristol fashion: Reclaiming Cary Grant for Bristol – Film heritage, screen tourism and curating the Cary Comes Home Festival (2021)
Journal Article
Crofts, C. (2021). Bristol fashion: Reclaiming Cary Grant for Bristol – Film heritage, screen tourism and curating the Cary Comes Home Festival. Open Screens, 4(2), Article 17. https://doi.org/10.16995/OS.8018

Crofts, C. (2021) ‘Bristol Fashion: Reclaiming Cary Grant for Bristol – Film Heritage, Screen Tourism and Curating the Cary Comes Home Festival’ in submitted to Open Screens. Abstract This article re-examines Cary Grant’s star persona arguing tha... Read More about Bristol fashion: Reclaiming Cary Grant for Bristol – Film heritage, screen tourism and curating the Cary Comes Home Festival.

Cary Grant Statue 20: In conversation with David Long (2021)
Digital Artefact
Crofts, C., & Long, D. (2021). Cary Grant Statue 20: In conversation with David Long. [Live-streamed Video Presentation]

2021 Cary Grant Statue 20: In Conversation with David Long, Cary Comes Home, 7 December

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.

The transmission of divine light (2021)
Book Chapter
Crofts, C. (2021). The transmission of divine light. In Opening up the Magic Box. Friese-Greene and Reflections on Film (97-100). Bristol: Bristol Ideas

Charlotte Crofts writes about her memories of cinema-going growing up in Bristol and beyond.