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Raising Cary Grant, The Bristol Footsteps of Archie Leach (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Crofts, C. Raising Cary Grant, The Bristol Footsteps of Archie Leach. [Theatre Walk]. Exhibited at Bristol. 18 November 2023 - 19 November 2023. (Unpublished)

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.

Through the "magic mirror": Adapting Angela Carter's Japanese writings for the silver screen (2022)
Journal Article
Crofts, C. (2022). Through the "magic mirror": Adapting Angela Carter's Japanese writings for the silver screen. Contemporary Women's Writing, 16(2), 263-282. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad001

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.

Intro to finding coherence across journals: Guidelines and criteria for making, curating, and publishing video essays (2021)
Digital Artefact
Crofts, C. (2021). Intro to finding coherence across journals: Guidelines and criteria for making, curating, and publishing video essays. [Video Presentation]

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.

Dare (2021)
Digital Artefact
Banks, E., & White, J. (2021). Dare. [Digital Video]

Synopsis 14 year old Jess is excited when Jake asks her out after a game of Dare one day after school. However, Jake has a particular plan in mind which will change her feelings for him and her approach to relationships forever. 'Dare' is a 15 mi... Read More about Dare.

The transmission of divine light (2021)
Book Chapter
Crofts, C. (2021). The transmission of divine light. In Opening up the Magic Box. Friese-Greene and Reflections on Film (97-100). Bristol: Bristol Ideas

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

Seeing It On Television (2021)
Book
Lees, D., & Sexton, M. (2021). Seeing It On Television. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing

Seeing It on Television: Televisuality in the Contemporary US ‘High-end’ Series is co-authored by Dominic Lees and Max Sexton. The book is a detailed study of aesthetics in contemporary US television drama. It examines a range of cultural, technolog... Read More about Seeing It On Television.

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.

Making it real: A policy programme for UK documentary film (2021)
Report
Presence, S., Quigley, A., & Spicer, A. (2021). Making it real: A policy programme for UK documentary film. Bristol: AHRC

This report outlines a new policy programme for the UK documentary film sector. Based on the extensive consultation that followed our previous report, Keeping It Real: Towards a Documentary Film Policy for the UK (2020) – itself based on the largest... Read More about Making it real: A policy programme for UK documentary film.

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.

Keeping it real: Towards a documentary film policy for the UK (2020)
Report
Presence, S., Spicer, A., Quigley, A., & Green, E. (2020). Keeping it real: Towards a documentary film policy for the UK. Bristol: AHRC

This report presents the findings of a survey of UK feature documentary producers and directors that was conducted in the summer of 2019 under the auspices of the ‘UK Feature Docs’ research project, an AHRC-funded study of the UK’s feature-length doc... Read More about Keeping it real: Towards a documentary film policy for the UK.