Dr Charlotte Crofts' Outputs (47)

Sneak peek at Mark Glancy's 'Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend’end’ (2020)
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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)
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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)
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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.

“Landscapes of the heart”: Adapting Angela Carter’s Japanese writings for the screen (2019)
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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)
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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.

Making the pilgrimage: Cary Grant’s hometown, Bristol City of Film (2018)
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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)
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BAFTSS Postgraduate network workshop and panel discussion: ‘Getting published’

"Nothing sacred”: Translating Angela Carter’s transgressive Japanese writings to film (2018)
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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)
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Postgraduate network workshop panel discussion: ‘Demystifying the REF’

Screenworks: Publishing academic film (2018)
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Translating cultures: Literary gymnastics and formal hybridity in adapting Angela Carter’s Japanese writings for the screen (2018)
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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.

Peer review of practice research - Panel discussion (2018)
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AHRC Filmmaking research network (FRN) panel

Cary comes home: The highs and lows of the Cary Grant festival (2017)
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Part of a panel on festivals and the academy, this talk critically reflects on directing the Cary comes home festival.

Round table on academic filmmaking at AHRC Filmmaking Research Network Workshop, 2016 (2016)
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Panel Discussion at 'Learning on screen audiovisual in education – what’s possible and what’s legal?' (2016)
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Palimpsests and magic moments: Rural and city centre cinemagoing in the South West (2015)
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Critically reflecting on the Curzon Memories app and the Lost Cinemas of Castle Park app, exploring oral history and cinema-going memories.

Cine(m)apping: Cinema, memory and deep mapping in the lost cinemas of Castle Park app (2015)
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Remembering cinema projection / projecting cinema memories (2015)
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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)
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“Constellations in the night sky”: Mobile media and the landscapes of cinema-going (2014)
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