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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?.

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.

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.

Angela Carter’s “three dimensional storytelling”: Adaptation, intermediality and textual transmogrification (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2020, October). Angela Carter’s “three dimensional storytelling”: Adaptation, intermediality and textual transmogrification. Paper presented at Angela Carter’s “three dimensional storytelling”: Adaptation, intermediality and textual transmogrification - The world is made of words: Angela Carter translator–Angela Carter in translation, Angela Carter society annual conference, 2020, Lausanne, Switzerland

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
Crofts, C. (2020, February). Localising Cary Grant: Cary comes home festival and Bristol as living archive. Paper presented at International Stardom and the Archive Symposium, University of Exeter

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
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’.

“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.

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.

Making the pilgrimage: Cary Grant’s hometown, Bristol City of Film (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2018, October). Making the pilgrimage: Cary Grant’s hometown, Bristol City of Film. Paper presented at Cinema, TV series and tourism conference, 2018, University of Lille

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)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2018, April). Getting published. Presented at British association of film, television and screen studies (BAFTSS) annual conference, University of Kent

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

"Nothing sacred”: Translating Angela Carter’s transgressive Japanese writings to film (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2018, April). "Nothing sacred”: Translating Angela Carter’s transgressive Japanese writings to film. Paper presented at British association of film, television and screen studies (BAFTSS) annual conference, 2018, University of Kent

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
Crofts, C. (2018, April). Demystifying the REF. Presented at British association of film, televisions and screen studies (BAFTSS) annual conference, 2018, University of Birmingham

Postgraduate network workshop panel discussion: ‘Demystifying the REF’

Screenworks: Publishing academic film (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2018, February). Screenworks: Publishing academic film. Presented at Thinking through the visual: A symposium on the intersection between film and research, 2018, University of Essex

Peer review of practice research - Panel discussion (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2018, January). Peer review of practice research - Panel discussion. Presented at Media, communications and cultural studies association (MeCCSA) annual conference, 2018, London South Bank University

AHRC Filmmaking research network (FRN) panel

Translating cultures: Literary gymnastics and formal hybridity in adapting Angela Carter’s Japanese writings for the screen (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2018, January). Translating cultures: Literary gymnastics and formal hybridity in adapting Angela Carter’s Japanese writings for the screen. Paper presented at Media communications and cultural studies association (MeCCSA) annual conference, 2018, London South Bank University

Angela Carter, one of the best known British writers of the 20th Century, was actively involved with the adaptation of her own work and also wrote directly for radio, film and television (explored in Crofts, 2003). She would have gone on to write mor... Read More about Translating cultures: Literary gymnastics and formal hybridity in adapting Angela Carter’s Japanese writings for the screen.