Dr Charlotte Crofts' Outputs (52)

Love affairs to remember: Remaking, casting, performance and mise-en-scène’ (2022)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

“Anthropological curiosity or mere prurience?”: Literary Pilgrimage and Unpacking the Tourist Gaze in Angela Carter’s ‘A Fertility Festival’ (2019)
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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’.

Cary Grant: From Knockabout to Knockout (2019)
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BFI Cary Grant Season Aug/Sept 2019
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Cary Grant: From Knockabout to Knockout

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Cary Grant’s screen persona was clearly a construction, so much so that he is famously quoted as saying “Everybody wants to be Cary Grant... Read More about Cary Grant: From Knockabout to Knockout.

“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.

Adapting "Flesh and the Mirror": Bunraku, Narrative Metalepsis and Puppet Porn (2019)
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Lost Cinemas of Castle Park, Digital Curation and the City (2019)
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Presentation for Coventry City of Culture 2021, invited, plus fee and expenses.

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.

"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.

Getting published (2018)
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BAFTSS Postgraduate network workshop and panel discussion: ‘Getting published’

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

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.