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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.

Looking for Archie: A walking tour of Cary Grant's Bristol (2017)
Physical Artefact
Crofts, C. (2017). Looking for Archie: A walking tour of Cary Grant's Bristol. [Walking Tour]. UWE Bristol

The Looking For Archie Walking Tour of Cary Grant's Bristol was first developed in 2017 as part of the Being Human Festival . Cary Grant was born as Archibald Leach in Bristol in 1904, but many Bristolians are unaware that he grew up here and continu... Read More about Looking for Archie: A walking tour of Cary Grant's Bristol.

Cary comes home: The highs and lows of the Cary Grant festival (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2017, April). Cary comes home: The highs and lows of the Cary Grant festival. Presented at British association of film, television and screen studies (BAFTSS) annual conference, 2017, University of Bristol

Part of a panel on festivals and the academy, this talk critically reflects on directing the Cary comes home festival.

Palimpsests and magic moments: Rural and city centre cinemagoing in the South West (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2015, June). Palimpsests and magic moments: Rural and city centre cinemagoing in the South West. Presented at An invitation to a celebration....pictures, places and living memory

Critically reflecting on the Curzon Memories app and the Lost Cinemas of Castle Park app, exploring oral history and cinema-going memories.

Digital cinema history, mobile technologies, location-based engagement and sustainability: Two case studies – The Curzon memories project and the lost cinemas of Castle Park (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2014, June). Digital cinema history, mobile technologies, location-based engagement and sustainability: Two case studies – The Curzon memories project and the lost cinemas of Castle Park. Paper presented at HOMER (history of moving image exhibition and reception) colloquium: How can digital cinema history matter more?, University of Glasgow

Accessing cinema memories through pervasive media (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2013, July). Accessing cinema memories through pervasive media. Paper presented at ARLIS (Art Library Society) UK & Ireland Annual Conference 2013, Bristol

City strata: Locative experience design and large-scale heritage apps (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2013, January). City strata: Locative experience design and large-scale heritage apps. Poster presented at Spaces and places of culture: Media, communications and cultural studies association (MeCCSA) annual conference, 2013, Derry, UK (designated city of culture in 2013)

Won MeCCSA Best Poster Award 2013

The Cinemapping App (prototype) (2012)
Physical Artefact
Crofts, C. The Cinemapping App (prototype)

The Cinemapping App maps Bristol's screen heritage so you can experience local cinema history in the places where it actually happened, from Cary Grant's memories of the Clare St Picture House to the unsolved murder of Odeon manager Robert Parrington... Read More about The Cinemapping App (prototype).

Being T/here: Locative experience design and the need for "Armchair Mode" (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2012, September). Being T/here: Locative experience design and the need for "Armchair Mode". Presented at Environmental Utterance; a Performative Conference; Making There Here, University College Falmouth, Falmouth, UK

The presentation will focus on the importance of designing for the location whilst acknowledging that not all users will choose / be able to physically be there. How can we design both for both here and there? What is the added value of being there... Read More about Being T/here: Locative experience design and the need for "Armchair Mode".

Technologies of being: Pervasive heritage (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2012, June). Technologies of being: Pervasive heritage. Paper presented at Postdigital Encounters: Creativity and Improvisation. Journal of Media Practice Symposium, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, UK

With the affordances of locative media, the heritage industry is rapidly embracing the postdigital era, with iPhone Applications for English Heritage, the National Trust and UNESCO World Heritage sites. At the same time, nostalgia for the past (and... Read More about Technologies of being: Pervasive heritage.