Staff profiles
Professor Tom Ryall
BA, Cert.Ed., MPhil.
Emeritus Professor of Film History
Phone 0114 225 6227
E-mail t.ryall@shu.ac.uk
Research interests
- the history of British cinema
- Anglo-American film culture
Current work
A study of Alfred Hitchcock's Gaumont British films
An analysis of Anthony Asquith's 1952 film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest'.
Research outputs since 2001
Books
'Anthony Asquith' (Manchester University Press, 2005)
'Britain and the American Cinema' (Sage Publications, 2001)
Key publications
American Production in Britain in the 1950s: culture, economics and geography', in Trading Culture. Global Traffic in Local Cultures in Film and Television ed. Sylvia Harvey (John Libbey Publishing, 2006), pp. 161-74
'Knights of the Round Table', in The Cinema of Britain and Ireland ed. Brian McFarlane (Wallflower Press, 2005), pp. 95-103
New Labour and the cinema: culture, politics and economics', Journal of Popular British Cinema No. 5, 2002, pp. 5-20
