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Design and Popular Entertainment offers a selection of nine essays that examine the range of design for popular entertainment, from theatre and film, to television and radio. -- .

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This series of linked essays explores the crafts in education, in history and literature, in the contemporary arts landscape, in the digital age, and takes an unsentimental, hard-headed look at craftsmanship today. Only when the romantic cobwebs have been blown away, it argues, can the key importance of the crafts be fully understood.

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Over 400 Spaghetti Westerns were produced during the 1960s and 1970s peak period. This book deals with several interesting examples, not to mention French, German, and Russian Westerns along the way.

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Sir Christopher Frayling explores the journey from Henry James's original novella, The Turn of the Screw, via critical debates and the stage version of The Innocents, to the screenplay by Archibald, Capote and Mortimer. Making full use of the unpublished Jack Clayton archive, the book also includes interviews with Deborah Kerr and Freddie Francis.

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In February 1747, Selima the tabby fell into a Chinese porcelain tub in Horace Walpole's Mayfair house and never returned to dry land. This book presents the true history of the event, and offers a look at the social and cultural life of the period.

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Offers a comprehensive and illustrated history and anthology of vampires in literature, from the folklore of Eastern Europe to the Romantics and beyond. The author recounts the most significant moments in gothic history, while extracts from a huge range of sources are contextualized and analysed.