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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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

Keep calm and Cary online: Cary comes home festival and online film culture during the pandemic (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2021, April). Keep calm and Cary online: Cary comes home festival and online film culture during the pandemic. Paper presented at BAFTSS annual conference, 2021, Southamption

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.

Mark Glancy, ‘Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend,' UK book launch (2021)
Digital Artefact
Crofts, C. (2021). Mark Glancy, ‘Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend,' UK book launch. [Live-streamed video presentation]

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
Crofts, C. (2020). Intro to finding coherence across journals: Guidelines and criteria for making, curating, and publishing video essays. [Video Presentation]

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
Crofts, C. (2020). An evening without Cary Grant. [Live-streamed Video Presentation]

‘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
Crofts, C. (2020). "Truly it felt like year one": A tour of Angela Carter's 1960s Bristol. [Live-streamed Video Presentation]

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.