Staff profiles
Dr Sheldon Hall
BA, PhD
Senior lecturer
Phone 0114 225 2629
E-mail s.hall@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
- American, British and international film history
- Hollywood cinema, especially in the 1950s and 60s
- film criticism, textual analysis and aesthetics
- widescreen cinema
- film distribution and exhibition
Research collaborations
Currently co-writing Epics, Spectacles and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History (Wayne Stare University Press) with Steve Neale (University of Exeter)
Co-editing Widescreen Worldwide (John Libbey Publishing) with Steve Neale and John Belton (Rutgers University)
Research outputs since 2001
'The Wrong Sort of Cinema: Refashioning the Heritage Film Debate', in Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book (Second Edition; London: British Film Institute, 2001; Third Edition forthcoming in 2008)
'Under Siege: The Double Rape of 'Straw Dogs'', in Robert Shail (ed.), British Cinema of the 1970s (London: British Film Institute, forthcoming in 2008)
Six entries in Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau (eds), Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood (London: BFI Publishing, 2006), ISBN 1-84457-124-6, pp. 170, 196-98, 240, 276-77, 336-37, 469
39 entries in Robert Murphy (ed.), Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Guide (London: BFI Publishing, 2006), ISBN 1-84457-126-2
'Twentieth Century Fox in the 1960s', 'Blockbusters in the 1970s' and 'The Sound of Music', in Linda Ruth Williams and Michael Hammond (eds), Contemporary American Cinema (London and New York: McGraw-Hill/ Open University Press, 2006), ISBN 0-33521-831-8, pp. 26-28, 46-49, 164-81
Book review of ABC: The First Name in Entertainment, et al., in Journal of British Cinema and Television, 3:1 (2006), pp. 188-91
'The Hills Are Alive in East Anglia: The Sound of Music Comes to Norwich', Picture House, no. 30 (2005), pp. 34-39.
'Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It' - The Making of the Epic Movie (Sheffield: Tomahawk Press, 2005)
Book reviews of British Social Realism: From Documentary to Brit Grit and J. Lee Thompson, in Journal of British Cinema and Television, 1:2 (2004), pp. 306-09, 321-24
Review article, 'British Social Realism: In Print and on DVD', in Viewfinder, no. 54 (March 2004), pp. 8-10
'Carpenter's Widescreen Style', in Ian Conrich and David Woods (eds), The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror (London: Wallflower Press, 2004), pp. 66-77
'Dial M for Murder', Film History, 16: 2 (2004), pp. 243-55
'Monkey Feathers: Defending 'Zulu'', in Claire Monk and Amy Sargeant (eds), British Historical Cinema (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 110-28
'Tall Revenue Features: The Genealogy of the Contemporary Blockbuster', in Steve Neale (ed.), Genre and Contemporary Hollywood (London: BFI Publishing, 2002), pp. 11-26
'Selling Religion: How to Market a Biblical Epic', Film History, 14: 2 (2002), pp. 170-85
