PinnedFrank CollinsinCathode Ray TubePUBLICATIONS: 2022–2023Recent books, chapters and essays on film and televisionDec 8, 2023Dec 8, 2023
PinnedFrank CollinsinCathode Ray TubePUBLICATIONS: 2020–2021Recent books, chapters and essays on film and televisionJul 27, 2022Jul 27, 2022
PinnedFrank CollinsinCathode Ray TubePUBLICATIONS: 2010–2019Books, chapters and essays on film and televisionJul 26, 20221Jul 26, 20221
Frank CollinsinCathode Ray TubeTHE SERVANT (1963)In their first film collaboration Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter explore the cracks in the veneer of English social class and sexualitySep 3Sep 3
Frank CollinsinCathode Ray TubeVAMPIRE CIRCUS (1972)Hammer’s circus horror brimming with shape-shifting vampires, surreal imagery, feverish eroticism and gore.Jul 101Jul 101
Frank CollinsinCathode Ray TubeSOLDIER AND ME (1974)Realism, class and landscape in Granada Television’s adaptation of Lionel Davidson‘s young adult fiction ‘Run For Your Life’.Apr 28Apr 28
Frank CollinsinCathode Ray TubeDRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1966)Director Terence Fisher revives Christopher Lee’s Dracula for Hammer’s lush, atmospheric sequel.Apr 7Apr 7
Frank CollinsinCathode Ray TubeTHE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (1951)Ealing’s evergreen satire on commerce and manufacturing, industrial relations, progress and class.Mar 222Mar 222
Frank CollinsinCathode Ray TubeCORONATION STREET: An Evening with Tony WarrenGranada Television’s ‘little experiment’ pleaded “Let me write what I know about” and, twice-weekly in 1960, he did.Feb 28Feb 28
Frank CollinsinCathode Ray TubeTHE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (1960)Female revenge, hereditary madness and Freudian architecture in Roger Corman’s first Edgar Allan Poe adaptation.Feb 162Feb 162