The best pop culture pictures of the month

Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham in Mike Newell’s 2012 adaptation is classic rococo, a style beloved of 18th-century France’s high society, and perfect for suggesting a descent from decadence to decay. The sepia-tint makes her skin, dress and boudoir appear as one, like she is becoming part of the architecture. Photograph: Johan Persson

This bad dream in soft, smoky charcoal, in a show at London’s Goethe-Institut (to 15 Dec), is by leading German comics artist Anke Feuchtenberger. Her figures hark back to Käthe Kollwitz’s fraught black and white drawings of the victims of war and poverty. Photograph: Maja Grafe

People Get Ready’s combined CV includes playing with David Byrne and Yeasayer. These art-pop credentials are written on the sleeve of their debut album: it sports one of New York painter’s Julie Mehretu’s rhythmic compositions of urban plans, zingy abstract shapes and controlled explosions of colour. Photograph: PR

Wainwright’s naked cover art for Come Home To Mama turns her body into an inky question mark that calls to mind the shot of Christine Keeler with the chair; the rainbow echo rescues it from girlie kitsch. Photograph: PR

This still comes from Santa Sangre, or Holy Blood, Jodorowsky’s crazed thriller, featuring religious cults, mutilation and murder. The tattooed devil lady certainly brings out the sexual undertones in all those paintings of St Sebastian. Photograph: PR