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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.

Cary Grant Comes Home festival events feedback (2021)
Report
Crofts, C. (2021). Cary Grant Comes Home festival events feedback. Bristol: AHRC

Event evaluation report and participant feedback on Looking for Archie Walking Tour, New York Centenary online events, Mark Glancy online talk, and Cary Comes Home for the Weekend online festival.

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.

Sneak peek at Mark Glancy's 'Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend’end’ (2020)
Digital Artefact
Crofts, C. (2020). Sneak peek at Mark Glancy's 'Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend’end’. [Live-streamed Video Presentation]

Academic and author Mark Glancy joins Charlotte Crofts, director of the Cary Comes Home Festival, for a sneak peek of his new book, Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend (OUP, 2020) which is published in the USA on 15 October and will be out i... Read More about Sneak peek at Mark Glancy's 'Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend’end’.

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.

Publishing screen media practice research: Evolving processes of contextualisation, peer review and future proofing in Screenworks (2018)
Journal Article
Crofts, C., & Nevill, A. (2018). Publishing screen media practice research: Evolving processes of contextualisation, peer review and future proofing in Screenworks. Media Practice and Education, 19(3), 283-297. https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2018.1529478

This article outlines current publishing practices in the field of academic filmmaking through a detailed discussion of the development of Screenworks, a peer-reviewed online publication of practice research in screen media. The imperative for academ... Read More about Publishing screen media practice research: Evolving processes of contextualisation, peer review and future proofing in Screenworks.

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.

"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.

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’

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’