Cultural historian Christopher Frayling's new book Once Upon A Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone is a large-format, beautifully illustrated book that chronicles the history of the spaghetti ...

It's hard to believe that it's been one hundred years since the first vampire film was produced. In 1922 gay director F.W. Murnau made "Nosferatu," an adaptation, or plagiarism, of Bram Stoker's ...

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Link: Who Stole My Volcano? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dematerialisation of Supervillain Architecture. « Magical Nihilism. "I saw Sir Ken Adam, production designer of numerous ...

One of the defining characteristics of 20th-century culture was the blurring of the lines between "high" and "low" art, words that now, unlike a century ago, need to be offset by quotation marks. In ...

“Somebody said to me the other day, I was born to write this book.” Christopher Frayling, a professor emeritus of cultural history at the Royal College of Art (RCA) and the former chair of Arts ...

We flick through a book of iconic French New Wave film posters with cultural historian Sir Christopher Frayling and Reel Art Press founder Tony Nourmand. Plus, a closer look at a cornerstone of the ...

Christopher Frayling has authored a number of well-respected works on popular film genres that have a reputation for solid historical grounding and insightful commentary. His new book, Mad, Bad and ...

A PACKED out audience enjoyed a detailed talk on the history of Frankenstein at a setting with direct links to the classic novel earlier this week. At an illustrated lecture, held in the place of Mary ...