Christopher Frayling

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Sir Christopher Frayling (born December 25, 1946 in Hampton , London ) is a British historian and author of numerous studies on popular culture.

Christopher Frayling (left) at the University of Bath (2015)

Life

Frayling headed the British Film Institute in the 1980s ; in the middle of the following decade he began working at colleges and universities. He taught history at the University of Bath , where he also received an honorary doctorate in 2003. From 2005 to 2009 he was Chairman of the Arts Council England , a task that he had previously carried out for the Design Council , the Royal Mint Advisory Committee ”and the Victoria and Albert Museum .

In 2001 Frayling was knighted as a Knight Bachelor for his services to art and design education. In 2015 he was elected to the Academia Europaea .

Numerous publications are the result of his work, which also includes radio and television interviews with numerous personalities from the film industry. He paid particular attention to spaghetti westerns and to Sergio Leone's oeuvre .

Publications (selection)

  • Once upon a Time in the West - Shooting a Masterpiece. Reel Art Press, London 2019, 335 pages, ISBN 978-1-909526-33-4 .
  • Sergio Leone. Something to do with death. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis MN 2012, 592 pp., ISBN 978-0-8166-4683-8 .
  • Once Upon a Time in Italy. The Westerns of Sergio Leone. Thames & Hudson, London 2005, 240 pp. ISBN 0-500-51228-0 .
  • Things to come (= BFI Film Classics ). British Film Institute, London 1995, 83 pp., ISBN 0-85170-480-8 .
  • Vampyres. Lord Byron to Count Dracula. Faber and Faber, London et al. 1992, 528 pp. ISBN 0-571-16311-4 .
  • Spaghetti Westerns. Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone. Routledge & Paul, London et al. 1981, 304 pp., ISBN 0-7100-0503-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/jan/28/arts-council-chief-frayling-departs
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personal data
SURNAME Frayling, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH London