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1	Audrey Hepburn: The Paramount Years more books like this by Tony Nourmand, Christopher Frayling (Foreword by) add to wishlist This collection of legendary and never-before-seen Paramount poster art, lobby cards, magazine covers, costume sketches, stills, and fashion photographs celebrates the golden era of Hepburn's career. 204 illustrations, many in full color. see all copies from $3.30! new only from $11.41! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula more books like this by Christopher Frayling (Editor) add to wishlist Vampire literature is an amazingly varied genre of writing, providing elements of everything from the penny dreadful horrors to powerful doses of myth and eroticism. Because it contains its own mythology and its own set of rules, it has also proved a psychologically attractive genre for many writers from its Romantic inception to the present day. ... see all copies from $4.82!
3	Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone more books like this by Christopher Frayling add to wishlist Frayling explores the European Westerns produced at Cinecitta Studios in Rome from a variety of perspectives, placing them in the Italian, social, political, industrial and cinematic contexts from which they evolved. He bases his study on a reading of the films, and on contemporary critical debate, giving special attention to the films of Sergio ... see all copies from $5.07! new only from $18.74! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Film Posters Science Fiction more books like this by Graham Marsh (Editor), Tony Nourmand (Editor), Christopher Frayling (Foreword by) add to wishlist With its unique ability to bring our wildest fantasies to life, the cinema has done more than any other medium to popularize the science fiction genre throughout the world. From "Metropolis" to "Godzilla" and from "Invaders From Mars" to "Star Wars", science fiction movies have peopled our universe, and others, with some of the studios' coolest ... see all copies from $4.71! new only from $16.99!
5	Strange landscape : a journey through the Middle Ages more books like this by Christopher Frayling add to wishlist The Middle Ages represented a flowering of spirituality and culture which, in Europe, has not been equalled since. This book examines some of the great writers and thinkers of the period and the events in which they took part. A wide-ranging introduction considers the enduring fascination with the Middle Ages - evident today in New Age ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
6	Nightmare: The Birth of Horror more books like this by Christopher Frayling add to wishlist Mary Shelley's creation, Frankenstein, who emerged from a dream by a young woman who had just lost her first child, has transformed itself into a warning about the dangers of tampering with nature. The vampire started life as a sexual fantasy, and Bram Stoker's tale became a metaphor for dominance and dependence in sexual relationships. "Dr Jekyll ... see all copies from $2.60! first editions
7	Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Scientist and the Cinema more books like this by Christopher Frayling add to wishlist Since its origin cinema has had an uneasy relationship with science and technology: scientists are almost always impossibly mad or impossibly saintly, and technology is nearly always very bad for you. In "Mad, Bad and Dangerous", Christopher Frayling explores the genealogy of the film scientist in films made in Western Europe, and especially in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.81! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Ken Adam and the Art of Production Design more books like this by Christopher Frayling add to wishlist Ken Adam is acknowledged as the world's greatest living production designer: creator of the look of the "James Bond" films, winner of Oscars for Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" and the film version of Alan Bennett's "The Madness Of King George". Now he explains his own scarcely understood contribution to the art of cinema. Ken Adam is a German ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.90! \| first editions
9	Horror Poster Art more books like this by Tony Nourmand (Editor), Graham Marsh (Editor), Christopher Frayling (Foreword by) add to wishlist This splendid, if scary, collection of movie posters covers over 80 years of horror films and features all the classics of the genre from early silents such as Nosferatu (illustrated here with a hitherto unpublished poster) or The Cabinet of Dr Caligari to contemporary blockbusters like Silence of the Lambs. Within a broadly chronological ... see all copies from $24.00! new only from $32.95! \| first editions
10	The Face of Tutankhamun more books like this by Christopher Frayling (Editor) add to wishlist In a five-part series for the BBC, the author of this book presents the case of King Tut to mark the 70th anniversary of the opening of his tomb. This book uses extracts from the diaries of Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter who led the expeditionary team. The staggering wealth of their discovery, and the legend of the curse of the tomb unleashed a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.17! \| first editions
11	Ken Adam Designs the Movies: James Bond and Beyond more books like this by Ken Adam, Christopher Frayling add to wishlist This book showcases the drawings of Ken Adam, the man who has created some of the most iconic and memorable sets in the history of film. Presented chronologically, the book takes us from design sketches for his earliest movies, including "Around the World in Eighty Days", through his Oscar-winning work with Stanley Kubrick, to production designs ... see all copies from $36.84! new only from $41.38! \| SVS
12	Sergio Leone PB more books like this by Christopher Frayling add to wishlist This biography explores the little-known private life of one of Hollwood's cult directors, Sergio Leone. It demonstrates how Leone made movies, but how - coming from a film background - films also made him. With testimony from his friends and colleagues, it is rich in anecdotes. see all copies from $19.70! new only from $23.27! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	The Art Pack more books like this by Christopher Frayling, Ron Van Der Meer, Helen Frayling add to wishlist Filled with pop-ups, pull-outs, a mobile, and other delightful learning tools, The Art Pack is a unique way to experience artists' use of color, line, composition, perspective, and optics, as well as a lavishly illustrated introduction to the history of Western art and an audio guide to 20 of the greatest pictures of all time. Includes a ... see all copies from $3.18! new only from $44.10! \| first editions
14 view cover	Film Posters Horror more books like this by Tony Nourmand (Editor), Graham Marsh (Editor), Christopher Frayling (Foreword by) add to wishlist This splendid, if scary, collection of movie posters covers over 80 years of horror films and features all the classics of the genre from early silents such as "Nosferatu" (illustrated here with a hitherto unpublished poster) and "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari" to contemporary blockbusters like "Silence of the Lambs". The films are grouped by ... see all copies from $10.39! new only from $18.87!
15 view cover	Re Views: Artists and Public Space more books like this by Black Dog Publishing (Creator), Christopher Frayling (Foreword by) add to wishlist Re Views provides an extensive overview of projects where artists have engaged new thinking and practices for the built environment and public space. see all copies from $7.17! new only from $8.96! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination more books like this by Martin Myrone (Editor), Marina Warner, Christopher Frayling add to wishlist The 1770s was marked by the emergence of themes of violence, horror and the supernatural in art: the birth of the Gothic. In 1782, the unveiling of Henry Fuseli's painting "The Nightmare" was met with a mixture of shock and fascination. The cosmic visions of William Blake, the vast, neo-classical history paintings of James Barry and the searing, ... see all copies from $36.37! new only from $59.70!
17	Napoleon wrote fiction more books like this by Emperor of the French Napoleon I, Christopher Frayling add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Design of the Times: One Hundred Years of the Royal College of Art more books like this by Christopher Frayling (Editor), Claire Catterall (Editor) add to wishlist History of the only postgraduate university of art and design in the world. see all copies from $8.52! new only from $9.07! \| first editions
19 view cover	Things to Come more books like this by Christopher Frayling add to wishlist The release of "Things to Come" in 1936 was one of the key moments in the history of science fiction in the cinema. The film was the brainchild of H. G. Wells, whose worldwide reputation as a thinker had persuaded its producer, Alexander Korda, to offer him a contract giving him virtually total control over the project. Korda drafted a dazzling ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $11.37! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Once Upon a Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone more books like this by Christopher Frayling add to wishlist An illustrated exploration of the mid-twentieth-century filmmaker's "spaghetti westerns" considers his role in defining the genre, his visual style and elliptical storytelling methods, and his creation of such works as A Fistful of Dollars and Once Upon a Time in the West. 12,500 first printing. see all copies from $21.30! new only from $21.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Vision: 50 Years of British Creativity more books like this by Michael Raeburn, Christopher Frayling (Contributions by), David Hockney (Contributions by) add to wishlist The second half of the 20th century has seen British artists, architects and designers assuming a central role on the world stage. In the years after the war, the young began to challenge accepted artistic values, looking at popular culture for their inspiration. The iconoclasm of the pop movement has continued to be one of the vital ingredients ... see all copies from $8.00! first editions
22	The Vampyre: a Bedside Companion by Christopher Frayling add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
23 view cover	Art and Design: 100 Years at the Royal College of Art more books like this by Christopher Frayling add to wishlist Split into three sections on fine art, design and communications, this fully-illustrated catalogue showcases the work of major figures in all artistic fields from the last century through to the post-modernism of the 1990s.' see all copies from $2.19! new only from $28.67!
24 view cover	Strange Landscape more books like this by Christopher Frayling add to wishlist A popular history of the Middle Ages. It looks at key events such as the birth of Gothic, the growth of unorthodox sects (the Cathars of Southern France and Bernard of Clairvaux are contrasted) and the great confrontation between Bernard and the philosopher Abelard. The book concludes with an analysis of Dante's divine comedy - which in many ways ... see all copies from $14.90! first editions
25	The Vampyre : Lord Ruthven to Count Dracula more books like this by Christopher Frayling add to wishlist see all copies from $24.00! first editions

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