Sir Christopher Frayling
Watch extended excerpts of Sir Christopher Frayling in conversation on the occasion of his Researchers' Tales presentation at the BFI National Library on 14 December 2009.
Sir Christopher Frayling is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History at the Royal College of Art, and was until recently the College's Rector. He was also until recently the Chair of Arts Council England, the largest funding body for the arts in the UK. Author of seventeen books and numerous articles on film, popular culture and design, he has also broadcast extensively on network television and radio - winning the Sony Award for best original script in 1990. He has a Cambridge PhD in the History of Ideas, and has been awarded several honorary doctorates. He is currently a Governor of the BFI.
Professor Frayling has contributed an introduction and commentary for the BFI's DVD release of The Innocents (1961) and an essay accompanying the DVD release of Love is the Devil (1998) .
His publications include:
Ken Adam and the Art of Production Design (Faber and Faber, 2005)
Mad, Bad and Dangerous? The Scientist and the cinema (Reaktion, 2005)
BFI Modern Classics: Last Tango in Paris (BFI, 1998)
Sergio Leone: Once Upon a Time in Italy (Thames and Hudson, 2005)
Sergio Leone: Something to Do With Death (Faber and Faber, 2000)
Things to Come (British Film Institute, 1995)
Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981)
