Dr Charlotte Crofts has a research interest in the ways in which digital technologies impact on all aspects of cinema. She is particularly interested in the impact of digital projection on cinema distribution and exhibition and her published research in this field has been cited in the UK Government Department of Culture Media and Sport Film Policy Review: A Future For British Film.
The Look: From Capture to Display esp. the video Cinema : Digital invited presentation at The Look: From Capture to Display - Digital Cinema Aesthetics and Workflows, 1 April 2011 - organised by Terry Flaxton.
Crofts, C. (2008) 'Digital Decay'. The Moving Image, Fall 2008, 8 (2). xiii-35. ISSN 1532-3978
Crofts, C. (2011) Cinema distribution in the age of digital projec- tion. Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, 30 (2). pp. 82-98. ISSN 0277-9897
Charlotte teaches filmmaking on the critical practice pathway in Film, with an emphasis on professional practice and employability. She is an associate Learning and Teaching Fellow and has a background in filmmaking and pervasive media .
Recent practice projects include the Curzon Memories App , Projection Hero , The Lost Cinemas of Castle Park App , and the Pop-up Fleapit .
My Publications
The Look: From Capture to Display esp. the video Cinema : Digital invited presentation at The Look: From Capture to Display - Digital Cinema Aesthetics and Workflows, 1 April 2011 - organised by Terry Flaxton.
Crofts, C. (2008) 'Digital Decay'. The Moving Image, Fall 2008, 8 (2). xiii-35. ISSN 1532-3978
Crofts, C. (2011) Cinema distribution in the age of digital projec- tion. Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, 30 (2). pp. 82-98. ISSN 0277-9897
Charlotte teaches filmmaking on the critical practice pathway in Film, with an emphasis on professional practice and employability. She is an associate Learning and Teaching Fellow and has a background in filmmaking and pervasive media .
Recent practice projects include the Curzon Memories App , Projection Hero , The Lost Cinemas of Castle Park App , and the Pop-up Fleapit .
My Publications
- Crofts, C. (2012) The Cinemapping App (prototype). [Artefact]
- Crofts, C. and Reid, J. and Calvium.com (2012) City strata. UNSPECIFIED.
- Crofts, C. (2012) The lost cinemas of castle park: A cinemapping experience. [Artefact]
- Crofts, C. (2012) Being T/here: Locative experience design and the need for "Armchair Mode". In: Environmental Utterance, University College Falmouth, Falmouth, UK, 1st - 2nd September, 2012.
- Crofts, C. (2012) The curzon memories app. [Artefact]
- Crofts, C. (2012) Geo-spatial and Geo-temporal documentary: The Curzon Memories App, City Strata and The Cinemap Layer. In: idocs 2012, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol / UWE, 22nd March, 2012.
- Crofts, C. (2012) Curzon memories app: Award wining poster, MeCCSA 2012. In: Media communications and cultural studies association annual conference, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, 11th - 13th January, 2012.
- Crofts, C. and Cathy Poole, Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon (2011) Presentation on Curzon Memories App. In: National Association of Moving Image Education Specialist Meeting, BFI, Southbank, London, 14th November, 2011.
- Crofts, C. (2011) The Curzon Memories App: Shifting practices, from filmmaking to experience design. In: MA Masterclass, University of Sussex Department of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex Department of Media, Film and Music, Brighton, UK, 19th October, 2011.
- Crofts, C. (2011) Spatialising the Archive: Dramatisation, oral history and locative heritage in the Curzon Memories App. In: IMTAL International Museum and Theatre Alliance Conference, MShed Museum, Bristol, UK, 15th October, 2011.
- Crofts, C. (2011) Projection hero installation. [Artefact]
- Crofts, C. (2011) Pervasive screens: Transforming the consumption of cinema history with the Curzon Heritage App. In: Screen International Annual Conference, Glasgow, UK, 1st - 3rd July, 2011.
- Crofts, C. (2011) Cinema distribution in the age of digital projection.Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, 30 (2). pp. 82-98. ISSN 0277-9897
- Crofts, C. (2011) Technologies of being: Pervasive heritage. In: Postdigital Encounters: Journal of Media Practice Symposium, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, UK, 24th June, 2012.
- Crofts, C. (2011) Screen heritage, pervasive media practice and research: or, How does the Curzon Memories App create impact, public engagement and knowledge exchange? In: Creative Media Research Group Seminar, UWE, Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, UK, 18th May, 2011.
- Crofts, C. (2011) Adding it up and making it count… or how to write a research “route map” for REF 2014. In: Conservatoire of Dance and Drama Research and Knowledge Exchange Strategy Seminar, London, UK, May, 2011.
- Crofts, C. (2011) The Curzon Memories App: Designing a screen heritage experience. In: Invited Research Seminar, Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Birmingham City University, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK, May, 2011.
- Crofts, C. (2011) The look: Exhibition and display: Digital projections. In: The Look: Digital Cinema Aesthetics and Workflows Knowledge Exchange Symposium, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol / UWE, 1st April, 2011.
- Crofts, C. (2011) The Curzon creative technologies project: Context aware media in a screen heritage context. In: MeCCSA Annual Conference, Salford University, Manchester, UK, 10th - 12th, January.
- Crofts, C. (2010) Digital Projections. In: From Silent Screen to Digital Screen: A Century of Cinema Exhibition, Phoenix Square, De Montfort University, Leicester, 10th-11th July 2010.
- Crofts, C. (2008) Practice research, knowledge exchange and HE. In: Journal of Media Practice, 4th Annual Symposium, University of Leeds, 20th June 2008.
- Crofts, C. (2008) Film is digital. In: Invited research seminar, University of Bedfordshire, 7th May 2008.
- Crofts, C. (2008) Digital futures: Digital decay. In: MA Screen Studies, Specialised Film Exhibition, University of Bristol, 29 April 2008.
- Crofts, C., Abba, T., Hadzi, A. and Mapplebeck, V. (2008) The (mal)content generation: media practice in the digital environment. In: Practice Section Panel at MeCCSA 2008, University of Cardiff, 9th-11th January 2008.
- Crofts, C. (2008) 'Digital Decay'.The Moving Image, Fall 2008, 8 (2). xiii-35. ISSN 1532-3978
- Crofts, C. (2007) Bluebell, short film and feminist film practice as research: Strategies for dissemination and peer review.Journal of Media Practice, 8 (1). pp. 7-24. ISSN 1468-2753
- Crofts, C. (2006) The other of the other: Angela Carter's "New-Fangled Orientalism". In: Munford, R., ed. (2006) Revisiting Angela Carter. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 87-109. ISBN 9781403997050
- Crofts, C. (2004) Bluebell. [Video]
- Crofts, C. (2003) Anagrams of desire: Angela Carter's writing for radio, film and television. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0719057248
- Crofts, C. (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.The Journal of Media Practice, 2 (1). pp. 19-29. ISSN 1468-2753
- Connor, R. and Crofts, C. (1999) Assuming white identities: racial and gendered looking across the literature/media divide. In: Brown, H., Gilkes, M. and Kaloski-Naylor, A., eds. (1999) White?Women: Critical Perspectives on Race and Gender. York: Raw Nerve Books, pp. 113-129. ISBN 0-9536585-0-3