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Fifty years ago, Hammer Films released The Curse of Frankenstein. The now-legendary British company went on to make such classics as Dracula (and its many sequels), making international stars out of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, changing the face of horror cinema, and inspiring a generation of Hollywood filmmakers, including George Lucas, Martin Scorsese and Tim Burton.
Now, for the first time, Hammer have given their active backing to an authorised history of the company, and have provided unlimited access to their archives.
The Hammer Story provides a film-by-film dissection, dripping with rare promotional material and previously unpublished photographs....
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Pink Floyd emerged from the world of British psychedelic music to become the biggest rock act in the world. But the journey from Grantchester Meadows to The Dark Side of the Moon was at times a painful one—perhaps most of all when the band had to let go of their original leader and songwriter, the brilliant but fragile Syd Barrett. This limited edition of 1,500 copies covers the band from the late sixties to the 2005 concerts and beyond. This is the sixth volume in this major new series of rock photography books compiled from the unique archives of Rex Features, London’s top picture library for the performing arts. ...
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Over fifty years ago, with the release of The Curse of Frankenstein and Christopher Lee in Dracula, Hammer ushered in a whole new era of blood and barely restrained cleavage in glorious colour, mixing sex and horror with a style and panache that made the small British company world famous.
Bursting at the seams with rare and previously unpublished photographs from Hammer’s archive and private collections worldwide, and featuring many new interviews, Hammer Glamour is a lavish, full colour celebration of Hammer’s female stars, including Ingrid Pitt, Martine Beswick, Caroline Munro, Barbara Shelley, Joanna Lumley, Nastassja Kinski, and of course Raquel Welch (who can forget her fur bikini in One Million Years B. C.?)...
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