Outputs (90)

Cary Grant, see under "Charm" (2024)
Digital Artefact

This contribution to the Screen Stars Dictionary explores Cary Grant, under the word "Charm". SCREEN STARS DICTIONARY The Screen Stars Dictionary begins as a joint project between Tecmerin. Journal of Audiovisual Essays and Ariel Avissar. Inspir... Read More about Cary Grant, see under "Charm".

‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization (2024)
Book Chapter

It is ironic that the iconoclastic Angela Carter was ‘canonized’ as the ‘Good Witch’ of English literature following her death which raises the question of whether this form of commemoration actually contained or limited her reception? This chapter... Read More about ‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization.

Raising Cary Grant, The Bristol Footsteps of Archie Leach (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

The University of the West of England and Cary Comes Home Festival present an all-new immersive actor-led theatre walk in partnership with Show Of Strength Theatre Company, using language and location to explore the transformation of Bristol-born Arc... Read More about Raising Cary Grant, The Bristol Footsteps of Archie Leach.

Walking in Cary Grant's footsteps: The looking for Archie walking tour (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter offers a critical reflection on Looking for Archie, a walking tour of actor Cary Grant’s Bristol, UK, speaking to the themes of “fandom communities and engagement” and “embodied experiences.” The first section outlines the tour and its r... Read More about Walking in Cary Grant's footsteps: The looking for Archie walking tour.

Cockney Cary (2022)
Digital Artefact

Book Launch for James Naremore’s Some Versions of Cary Grant and Cary Comes Home festival programme announcement, 5 October. “Cary Grant famously said, ‘Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant’. His development of that star i... Read More about Cockney Cary.

Love affairs to remember: Remaking, casting, performance and mise-en-scène’ (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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’.

Introduction: Angela Carter and Japan—A global perspective (2022)
Journal Article

Since her premature death in 1992, Angela Carter has become recognized as one of the most important writers in the English language, with numerous edited collections, theater adaptations, documentaries, and The Bloody Chamber now on the A-Level sylla... Read More about Introduction: Angela Carter and Japan—A global perspective.

Through the "magic mirror": Adapting Angela Carter's Japanese writings for the silver screen (2022)
Journal Article

This article outlines the development of a feature-length screenplay adaptation of Angela Carter’s short story “Flesh and the Mirror,” situating it within a critical discussion of her metaleptic narrative strategies and the challenges of translating... Read More about Through the "magic mirror": Adapting Angela Carter's Japanese writings for the silver screen.

Coming or going?: Angela Carter’s itinerant subjectivity in “The Quilt Maker” (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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?.

Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries (2022)
Book

Representing a shift in Carter studies for the 21st century, this book critically explores her legacy and showcases the current state of Angela Carter scholarship. It gives new insights into Carter's pyrotechnic creativity and pays tribute to her inc... Read More about Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries.

Fireworks: Angela Carter's incendiary imagination (2022)
Book Chapter

From Willie Green to Archie Leach: Mapping Bristol’s early cinema history (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Bristol fashion: Reclaiming Cary Grant for Bristol – Film heritage, screen tourism and curating the Cary Comes Home Festival (2021)
Journal Article

Crofts, C. (2021) ‘Bristol Fashion: Reclaiming Cary Grant for Bristol – Film Heritage, Screen Tourism and Curating the Cary Comes Home Festival’ in submitted to Open Screens. Abstract This article re-examines Cary Grant’s star persona arguing tha... Read More about Bristol fashion: Reclaiming Cary Grant for Bristol – Film heritage, screen tourism and curating the Cary Comes Home Festival.

Cary Grant Statue 20: In conversation with David Long (2021)
Digital Artefact

2021 Cary Grant Statue 20: In Conversation with David Long, Cary Comes Home, 7 December

Inside Cinema Shorts: 80. Cary Grant (2021)
Digital Artefact

How a working class boy from Bristol became one of the brightest stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, the height of silver-screen sophistication in films ranging from His Girl Friday and An Affair to Remember, to Bringing Up Baby and North By Northw... Read More about Inside Cinema Shorts: 80. Cary Grant.

Intro to finding coherence across journals: Guidelines and criteria for making, curating, and publishing video essays (2021)
Digital Artefact

An increasing number of journals and conferences are opening up to non-conventional academic formats, with consideration of creative methods and productions, such as video essays. For instance, the free open community-led digital archive for media,... Read More about Intro to finding coherence across journals: Guidelines and criteria for making, curating, and publishing video essays.

The transmission of divine light (2021)
Book Chapter

Charlotte Crofts writes about her memories of cinema-going growing up in Bristol and beyond.

Keep calm and Cary online: Cary comes home festival and online film culture during the pandemic (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

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

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

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

‘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

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

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 Contribution

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 Contribution

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 Contribution

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

BFI Cary Grant Season Aug/Sept 2019 Season Intro Cary Grant: From Knockabout to Knockout 60-word blurb 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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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 Contribution

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Lost Cinemas of Castle Park, Digital Curation and the City (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

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 Contribution

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 Contribution

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 Contribution

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

Demystifying the REF (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Postgraduate network workshop panel discussion: ‘Demystifying the REF’

Screenworks: Publishing academic film (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Peer review of practice research - Panel discussion (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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 Contribution

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

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 Contribution

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Panel Discussion at 'Learning on screen audiovisual in education – what’s possible and what’s legal?' (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Palimpsests and magic moments: Rural and city centre cinemagoing in the South West (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Remembering cinema projection / projecting cinema memories (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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 Contribution

“Constellations in the night sky”: Mobile media and the landscapes of cinema-going (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

On location: Geo-mapping Bristol City Centre cinemas in the ‘Lost cinemas of Castle Park’ app (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Accessing cinema memories through pervasive media (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Location, location, location: Situating cinema memories with the Curzon Memories app and the Lost Cinemas of Castle Park app (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

City strata: Locative experience design and large-scale heritage apps (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Won MeCCSA Best Poster Award 2013

“Old wine in new bottles”: Researching cinema heritage through pervasive media (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Cinemapping App (prototype) (2012)
Physical Artefact

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 Contribution

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 Contribution

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.

The curzon memories app (2012)
Physical Artefact

The project piloted locative technologies to develop a smartphone application that provides a digital tour of the interior and exterior of the Curzon Community Cinema in Clevedon using GPS and QR Codes respectively to trigger dramatisations and oral... Read More about The curzon memories app.

Geo-spatial and Geo-temporal documentary: The Curzon Memories App, City Strata and The Cinemap Layer (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

i-docs2012 Abstract Charlotte Crofts Title: ‘Geo-spatial and Geo-temporal documentary: The Curzon Memories App, City Strata and The Cinemap Layer’ The affordances of mobile technologies enable the i-doc experience to occur in dialogue between... Read More about Geo-spatial and Geo-temporal documentary: The Curzon Memories App, City Strata and The Cinemap Layer.

Curzon memories app: Award wining poster, MeCCSA 2012 (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

**this poster won the poster prize at MeCCS@ 2012** Original MeCCSA Abstract for a Poster and Demo: I would like to present a poster and a demo of my Curzon Memories App, a practice-research project that uses mobile technologies and locative me... Read More about Curzon memories app: Award wining poster, MeCCSA 2012.

Presentation on Curzon Memories App (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation was jointly presented with Cathy Poole, Education Office at the Curzon Cinema Clevedon, exploring how the affordances of mobile media can be used to enhance learning and teaching about cinema history, cinema-going and cinema technol... Read More about Presentation on Curzon Memories App.

The Curzon Memories App: Shifting practices, from filmmaking to experience design (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Invited to lecture to MA students about the development of my practice from filmmaking to experience design, specifically reflecting on the impact of digital media on my practice research trajectory.

Spatialising the Archive: Dramatisation, oral history and locative heritage in the Curzon Memories App (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Spatialising the archive: Dramatisation, oral history and locative heritage in the Curzon Memories App at IMTAL International Museum and Theatre Alliance Conference, Bristol, October (invited).

Projection hero installation (2011)
Physical Artefact

The Projection Hero installation operates as part of the Curzon Memories App or a stand alone exhibit. It comprises of a rabbit hutch-sized miniature cinema, with velvet and gold brocade curtains and hand-carved seats which can be operated via your... Read More about Projection hero installation.

Technologies of seeing the past: The Curzon Memories App (2011)
Book Chapter

This paper presents a practice research project based at The Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, UK. Working closely with the cinema to develop a locative or context-aware heritage application for the iPhone, the project aims to enhance the Curzon’s... Read More about Technologies of seeing the past: The Curzon Memories App.

Pervasive screens: Transforming the consumption of cinema history with the Curzon Heritage App (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents a practice-based research project based at the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, home of the Curzon Collection, an archive of cinema projectors donated by the Projected Picture Trust. The original cinema was built in 1912 and is... Read More about Pervasive screens: Transforming the consumption of cinema history with the Curzon Heritage App.

Cinema distribution in the age of digital projection (2011)
Journal Article

It has become almost axiomatic to state that the transition to digital technologies represents a momentous period of change for the cinema. As Angelo D’Alessio of the European Digital Cinema Form suggests, “the Cinema industry is confronting unparall... Read More about Cinema distribution in the age of digital projection.

Screen heritage, pervasive media practice and research: or, How does the Curzon Memories App create impact, public engagement and knowledge exchange? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Reflecting on how to make the route map of research for the Curzon Locative Media Project explicit in the lead up to REF 2014 in relation to the current shift towards "Impact", public engagement and KE both within UWE and the Research Council agenda.

Adding it up and making it count… or how to write a research “route map” for REF 2014 (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This seminar will focus on the documentation and dissemination of creative arts research and knowledge exchange activities. Initial scoping work by CDD Research Associate, Anna Farthing, has revealed that: a) Some of the CDD schools’ existing ac... Read More about Adding it up and making it count… or how to write a research “route map” for REF 2014.

The Curzon Memories App: Designing a screen heritage experience (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

‘The Curzon Memories App: Designing a Screen Heritage Experience’ Dr Charlotte Crofts (University of the West of England) Charlotte.crofts@uwe.ac.uk I will present a practice-based research project based at the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon,... Read More about The Curzon Memories App: Designing a screen heritage experience.

The look: Exhibition and display: Digital projections (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This session examines the conversion to digital projection and distribution, and charts how many cinemas worldwide are converting to digital. Now that editing is almost entirely accomplished via digital means, it is unusual that digital is taking lo... Read More about The look: Exhibition and display: Digital projections.

The Curzon creative technologies project: Context aware media in a screen heritage context (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Abstract for MeCCSA 2011 Conference The Curzon Creative Technologies Project: Context Aware Media in a Screen Heritage Context The practise-based project is based at the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, home of the Curzon Collection, an arch... Read More about The Curzon creative technologies project: Context aware media in a screen heritage context.

Digital Projections (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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 Projections.

Practice research, knowledge exchange and HE (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper uses my practice research project on the impact of digital technology on feature film production to reflect on the implications of the current KTP or Knowledge Exchange agenda on media practice research and education.

Film is digital (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation of practice research project on the impact of digital technologies on feature film production

Digital futures: Digital decay (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Lecture to the MA Screen Studies unit in Specialised Cinema Exhibition on the impact of digital technology on feature film exhibition and distribution.

The (mal)content generation: media practice in the digital environment (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In my role as Practice Section chair of MeCCSA I organised and chaired this panel bringing practice researchers and teachers together to discuss the impact of digital "content" on the field of media practice teaching and research.

'Digital Decay' (2008)
Journal Article

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

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.

Angela Carter’s “New-Fangled Orientalism” (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The other of the other: Angela Carter's "New-Fangled Orientalism" (2006)
Book Chapter

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

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

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

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

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.

Screenplay: Flesh and the Mirror
Book

A feature-length screenplay adapting Angela Carter's short story 'Flesh and the Mirror', and other semi-autobiographical stories from the Fireworks collection, including 'A Souvenir of Japan', 'The Loves of Lady Purple', 'the Smile of Winter', 'Penet... Read More about Screenplay: Flesh and the Mirror.

The lost cinemas of castle park: A cinemapping experience
Physical Artefact

The Lost Cinemas of Castle Park is a smartphone app which enables you to discover the hidden history of Bristol's cinema-going past, by using your GPS position to trigger context-specific stories whilst you explore what used to be the heart of Bristo... Read More about The lost cinemas of castle park: A cinemapping experience.

City strata
Other

‘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.

Radical Filmmaking Special Issue, Screenworks 7.3
Digital Artefact

We are delighted to publish this volume of Screenworks, a special issue dedicated to exploring various forms of radical filmmaking. This issue was produced in association with the Radical Film Network, an international network of organisations involv... Read More about Radical Filmmaking Special Issue, Screenworks 7.3.