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'Digital Decay' (2008)
Journal Article
Crofts, C. (2008). 'Digital Decay'. Moving Image -Minneapolis-, 8(2), xiii-35. https://doi.org/10.1353/mov.0.0015

The fate of 35mm as an acquisition and exhibition medium is intimately connected with questions of future-proofing, archiving, preservation, and access, which are currently at the foreground of recent debates around screen heritage in the UK. In this... Read More about 'Digital Decay'.

Bluebell, short film and feminist film practice as research: Strategies for dissemination and peer review (2007)
Journal Article
Crofts, C. (2007). Bluebell, short film and feminist film practice as research: Strategies for dissemination and peer review. Journal of Media Practice, 8(1), 7-24. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmpr.8.1.7_1

This article seeks to reflect on my filmmaking practice through a discussion of my short film Bluebell (2003), situating the film within a theoretical context and providing a ‘route map’ of the practice research process. The film uses the cliché of ‘... Read More about Bluebell, short film and feminist film practice as research: Strategies for dissemination and peer review.

The other of the other: Angela Carter's "New-Fangled Orientalism" (2006)
Book Chapter
Crofts, C. (2006). The other of the other: Angela Carter's "New-Fangled Orientalism". In R. Munford (Ed.), Revisiting Angela Carter (87-109). Palgrave Macmillan

Crofts was invited to contribute this chapter to Munford's volume which is recognised as 'the first to focus entirely on [intertextuality] in Carter's work. Re-Visiting Angela Carter should assume an important place in a new wave of Carter criticism.... Read More about The other of the other: Angela Carter's "New-Fangled Orientalism".

Bluebell (2004)
Digital Artefact
Crofts, C. (2004). Bluebell

This output comprises a six-minute short film 'practice as research output' which extends Crofts published research on Angela Carter's feminist reappropriation of Red Riding Hood in the short story (1979), radio (1980) and film adaptations (1984) of... Read More about Bluebell.

Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter's Writing for Radio, Film and Television (2003)
Book
Crofts, C. (2003). Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter's Writing for Radio, Film and Television. Manchester University Press

This book is the first volume to give critical attention to Carter's writings for media, including five radio plays, two film adaptations, an original television documentary and a number of unrealised scripts for stage and screen, examining these tex... Read More about Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter's Writing for Radio, Film and Television.

From the ‘hegemony of the eye’ to the ‘hierarchy of perception’: The reconfiguration of sound and image in terrence malick's days of heaven (2001)
Journal Article
Crofts, C. (2001). From the ‘hegemony of the eye’ to the ‘hierarchy of perception’: The reconfiguration of sound and image in terrence malick's days of heaven. Journal of Media Practice, 2(1), 19-29. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmpr.2.1.19

Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978) has been hailed as ‘one of the most beautiful films ever made’, but the film's immense cinematic beauty has detracted from the impact of its experimental soundtrack. Drawing on interview material with editor Bi... Read More about From the ‘hegemony of the eye’ to the ‘hierarchy of perception’: The reconfiguration of sound and image in terrence malick's days of heaven.

Assuming white identities: Racial and gendered looking across the literature/media divide (1999)
Book Chapter
Connor, R., & Crofts, C. (1999). Assuming white identities: Racial and gendered looking across the literature/media divide. In H. Brown, M. Gilkes, & A. Kaloski-Naylor (Eds.), White? Women: Critical Perspectives on Race and Gender (113-129). York: Raw Nerve Books

This essay explores and problematises the category of 'white women', examining the developing dialogue between feminist and postcolonial discourses across the literature / media divide. Our focus is on representation which, as Richard Dyer acknowl... Read More about Assuming white identities: Racial and gendered looking across the literature/media divide.

City strata
Other
Crofts, C., & Reid, J. City strata

‘City Strata’ is a new mobile authoring platform which enables developers to create different heritage ‘layers’ or ways of experiencing the city, that their users can then enhance by uploading their own content. Behind the scenes, the platform innov... Read More about City strata.