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Dr Charlotte Crofts is a filmmaker and Senior Lecturer in Digital Film and Video at London South Bank University, Department of Arts, Media and English.
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[edit] Research
My research is interdisciplinary and spans the perceived theory / practice divide. Having established a strong research profile through traditional research methods leading to publication (including a book, several chapters in books and refereed articles), I am currently developing my research through film practice alongside publication. My doctoral research was on Angela Carter's writing for radio, film and television (since publised by MUP). After completing my PhD I undertook two years of vocational training in video and film production, going on to work in the industry as an editor, and this has informed my current research trajectory. Current research interests include feminist film theory and practice; race, gender and representation; screen adapatation; editing and the impact of digital technology on film and screen-based media. I have published articles on the use of sound in Terence Malick's work, the representation of whiteness and gender in Hollywood film and have revisted Angela Carter's work from a post colonial perspective.
[edit] Film Practice Research
I am involved in debates around articulating screen media practice research and issues of peer review of practice. I am on the editorial board of the Journal of Media Practice and associate editor of ScreenWorks, an academically peer-reviewd DVD of screen media practice, both published by Intellect.
Bluebell (2003, 16mm, 6 minutes)
"Mummy, why am I called Bluebell?": a small child's innocent question triggers a chain of flashbacks which reveal the disturbing circumstances of her conception in the bluebell woods. Bluebell has been screened at Palm Springs International Festival of Short Film (2004), Los Angeles International Short Film Festival (2004), Rushes Soho Shorts (2004), Imaginaria Film Festival, Conversarno, Italy (2005). Bluebell has also been presented at academic conferences, including the 3rd International Language, Communication, Culture Conference, Evora University, Portugal (2005) and the 2nd International, Interdisciplinary Emotional Geographies Conference, Queesn University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (2006), Symposium on 'Peer Review and Dissemination of Media Practice' at Salford University (2006), The Centre for Media Research, Ulster (2006) and the Narrative, Non-Narrative and Anti-Narrative Conference, UWE in association with Encounters short film festival (2006).
[edit] Current & Future Research
My current research, funded through the HEFCE Promising Researcher Fellowship, is a practice research project entitled 'Film, HD and the Cinema' which uses an embodied practice methodology to explore the impact of High Definition video and other digital technologies on feature film production, post production and distribution. An elegy to celluloid, shot on HDV, the project explores this moment of transition between analogue (35mm film) and digital aquisition, post-production and exhibition formats, drawing Lev Manovich's contention that there is no such thing as "new" media in The Language of New Media.
In future I intend to develop a chapter on Angela Carter's writings about Japan (collected in Revisiting Angela Carter) into a practice-based research project, using bunraku puppetry to explore the politics of white intellectual travellers' experiences of the East (including Roland Barthes' Empire of Signs (1970) and Julia Kristeva's About Chinese Women (1977)).
[edit] Postgraduate Opportunities
I am interested in supervising film or video practice-based PhD or MA students. If you would like to discuss research project or ideas, please contact me via the LSBU phonebook.
[edit] Publications
- Chapter in book (2006), '"The Other of the Other": Angela Carter's "New-Fangled Orientalism"', in Becky Munford (ed.), Re-Visiting Angela Carter: Text, Contexts, Intertexts, Palgrave Macmillan.
- Book (2003), Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter’s Writing for Radio, Film and Television, Manchester University Press (95,000 words).
- Refereed Article (2001), ‘From the “Hegemony of the Eye” to the “Hierarchy of Perception”: The Reconfiguration of Sound and Image in Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven’, Journal of Media Practice, 2:1, 19-29 (5,000 words).
- Chapter in Book (1999) (with Rachel Connor), ‘Assuming White Identities: Racial and Gendered Looking across the Literature / Media Divide’ in White?Women: Critical Perspectives on Race and Gender, York: Raw Nerve Books, 113-129 (3,000 words).
- Entries (1999) on Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber (1979) and Nights at the Circus (1984) and Edna O'Brien Girls With Green Eyes (1964) in Lorna Sage (ed.), The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 69, 469.
- Chapter in Book (1998), ‘Curiously Downbeat Hybrid or Radical Retelling?: Neil Jordan’s and Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves’ in Cartmell, Hunter, Kaye and Whelehan (eds), Sisterhoods Across the Literature / Media Divide, London and Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press, 48-63 (5,000 words).
- Researcher, Angela Carter (1997), Shaking A Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings, London: Chatto and Windus.
- Review (1996/7) of Cartmell, Hunter, Kaye and Whelehan (eds) (1996), Pulping Fictions: Consuming Culture Across the Literature/Media Divide, London and Chicago: Pluto Press in ManuScript, 1:3, Winter.
- Review (1996), of Angela Carter (1996), The Curious Room: Collected Dramatic Works, London: Chatto and Windus in Times Literary Supplement, 8 November, 34.
- Refereed Article (1995), '"The Peanut Crunching Crowd" in the work of Sylvia Plath: Holocaust as Spectacle?' in ManuScript 1:1, Autumn [1]
- Founding and Managing Editor of ManuScript, biannual graduate journal in english, University of Manchester (1995-1997).
[edit] Other Films
Wings (2003, miniDV, 90 Seconds)
Even angels get the blues... Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire meets Benny Hill, when an handsome angel feels inadequate on encountering his well-endowed rival. Screened at Brief Encounters International Short Film Festival (2003) and was runner-up in the DepicT! 90-Second Film Competition [2] (judged by Peter Jackson) and has also been screened at the Women in Media Studies Network Screening at AMPE/MeCCSA Joint Annual Conference, Lincoln (2005). Watch it now on YouTube.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (2003, Super 8, 3 mintues) with Yvonne Davies
Kermit gets flustered whilst preparing dinner for his friends and everything goes pear-shaped. Screened at Joyof8, Bristol
Wurlitzer (2004, miniDV, 15 minutes)
The Trocadero Wurlitzer is the largest Wurlitzer ever shipped to the UK. Originally housed in the 3,400 seater Trocadero Cinema, Elephant and Castle, London, the organ was decommissioned in the 1960s and rescued by the Cinema Organ Society. This documentary features live performances by Robert Wolfe and Richard Hills and a behind the scenes look at the pipe chambers.
Once Upon a Time (2004, Super 8, 3 mintues)
Gregory is a young skateboarder who doesn't like heaven because the angels don't want to play with him. To pass the time in eternity, he takes up photography and makes a name for himself in homoerotic porn, proving that sado-masochistic iconography is a much safer and more rewarding pastime than skateboarding. Filmed on location at Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol and Aulon Cemetery, France. Screened at Joyof8, Bristol
