Christopher Frayling
Academic, educationist, writer, television presenter
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir Christopher John Frayling is a British educationalist and writer, known for his study of popular culture. Early life and education Christopher Frayling was born in Hampton, a suburb of London, in affluent circumstances. His father, Major Arthur Frederick Frayling, OBE , late of the Royal Army Service Corps, was chairman of the Hudson's Bay fur auction house in London and of the International Fur Trade Federation; his mother, Barbara Kathleen Imhof, the daughter of record and audio equipment store owner Alfred Imhof, was a driver in international car rallies, and won the RAC Rally with her brother, Godfrey Imhof, in 1952. His brother, Nicholas, was Dean of Chichester Cathedral from 2002-2014.
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- Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone (1981) (85)
- Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula (1991) (67)
- On Craftsmanship: Towards a New Bauhaus (2011) (64)
- Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination (2006) (26)
- Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death (2000) (21)
- The Yellow Peril: Dr Fu Manchu & The Rise of Chinaphobia (2014) (16)
- Art and design : 100 years of the Royal College of Art (1999) (12)
- Mad, Bad and Dangerous? (2005) (11)
- Once Upon a Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone (2005) (11)
- Ken Adam: The Art of Production Design (2006) (8)
- The face of Tutankhamun (1992) (7)
- The wretched of the earth (1993) (4)
- The Royal College of Art (1987) (4)
- The 2001 File: Harry Lange and the Design of the Landmark Science Fiction Film (2015) (3)
- The Royal College of Art : one hundred & fifty years of art & design (1987) (3)
- The New Bauhaus: an art education for the 21st century (2007) (3)
- Cinema: The Whole Story (2011) (3)
- Eduardo Paolozzi's machine dreams (1994) (2)
- The Crafts in the 1990s (1990) (2)
- Turning the Screw (2013) (1)
- 100 years at the Royal College of Art: art and design (1999) (1)
- THE CREATION OF 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (2014) (1)
- Ken Adam Designs the Movies: James Bond and Beyond (2008) (1)
- Interview: Christopher Frayling talks to Deborah Cameron and Colin MacCabe about the Millennium Dome (1999) (1)
- Acknowledgements (2020) (0)
- “…to know the place for the first time…” (2021) (0)
- The Restless Image: A Sociology of Fashion@@@Dress Art and Society, 1560-1970 (1976) (0)
- CREATION OF ARTIFACTS AS A VEHICLE FOR DESIGN RESEARCH (2009) (0)
- Ghosts and Critics (2013) (0)
- The Quiet Man Gets Noisy:Sergio Leone, the Italian Western and Ireland (2016) (0)
- The art pack : a unique, three-dimensional tour through the creation of art over the centuries--what artists do, how they do it, and the masterpieces they have given us (1992) (0)
- The art of oncology (2006) (0)
- Looking Behind the Wizard's Curtain (2012) (0)
- In the Drawing Room (2013) (0)
- A Canterbury Tale (2013) (0)
- Adam, Sir Kenneth Hugo [Ken] (1921–2016), art director and production designer for film (2020) (0)
- Eastwood on Eastwood (2012) (0)
- The Rhetoric of Research (2002) (0)
- Horace Walpole's Cat (2009) (0)
- The Saint and the Scholar (1958) (0)
- Design and popular entertainment (2009) (0)
- Introduction: The Perils of Pauline (2013) (0)
- Curse of the scientist (2005) (0)
- David Bowie then...David Bowie now. [Philip Hoare with Christopher Frayling and Mark Kermode] (2013) (0)
- Art and Religion in the Modern West: Some Perspectives (2012) (0)
- The Restless Image: A Sociology of Fashion by René König, Dress Art and Society, 1560–1970 by Geoffrey Squire (review) (2017) (0)
- Themes and Variations: From Arts and Crafts to Art Deco - the interior designs of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (2005) (0)
- European visions of childhood (1998) (0)
- Eduardo Paolozzi--recurring themes (1985) (0)
- Zapata Spaghetti:Reflections on the Italian Western and the Mexican Revolution (2016) (0)
- From Brunel to Wallace & Gromit:The public image of the British engineer (2006) (0)
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