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Sir Christopher John Frayling (born 25 December 1946) is a British educationalist and writer, known for his study of popular culture. ==Biography== After Repton School, Frayling read history at Churchill College, Cambridge and gained a PhD in the study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He was appointed a Fellow of the college in 2009. He taught history at the University of Bath and was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Arts) from that University in 2003. In 1979 Frayling was appointed Professor of Cultural History at London's post-graduate art and design school, the Royal College of Art. Frayling was Rector in charge of the Royal College of Art from 1996 to 2009. In 2003 he was awarded the Sir Misha Black award and was added to the College of Medallists〔 http://www.mishablackawards.org.uk/the-medal 〕 He was the Chairman of Arts Council England from 2005 until January 2009. He also served as Chairman of the Design Council, Chairman of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee, and a Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was a governor of the British Film Institute in the 1980s. In April 2014 he was appointed Chancellor of the Arts University Bournemouth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=AUB appoints Sir Christopher Frayling as new Chancellor )〕 He has had a wide output as a writer and critic on subjects ranging from vampires to westerns. He has written and presented television series such as ''The Art of Persuasion'' on advertising and ''Strange Landscape'' on the Middle Ages. He has conducted a series of radio and television interviews with figures from the world of film, including Woody Allen, Deborah Kerr, Ken Adam, Francis Ford Coppola and Clint Eastwood. He has written and presented several television series, including ''The Face of Tutankhamun'' and ''Nightmare: Birth of Horror''. He studied spaghetti westerns and specifically director Sergio Leone. He has written a very popular biography of Leone, ''Something To Do With Death'' (2000); helped run the Los Angeles-based Gene Autry Museum's exhibit on Leone in 2005; and appeared in numerous documentaries about Leone and his films, particularly the DVD documentaries of ''Once Upon a Time in the West'' (1968). He also provided audio commentaries for the special edition DVD releases of ''A Fistful of Dollars'', ''For a Few Dollars More'', ''Once Upon a Time in the West'' and ''The Colossus of Rhodes''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christopher Frayling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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