Sheldon Hall (film historian)

Sheldon Hall is a film historian based in the film department of Sheffield Hallam University. Dr. Hall holds the post of Undergraduate Programme Leader.

Published works

Books

• Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It (Tomahawk Press (GA), 2005, ISBN 0-9531926-6-0)
• Epics, Spectacles and Blockbusters (co-authored with Steve Neale; Detroit: Wayne State University Press, forthcoming)
• Widescreen Worldwide (co-edited with Steve Neale and John Belton; John Libbey Publishing, forthcoming)

Chapters in Books

• How the West Was Won: History, Spectacle and the American Mountains’, in Ian Cameron and Douglas Pye (eds.), The Movie Book of the Western (London: Studio Vista, 1996)

• "The Wrong Sort of Cinema: Refashioning the Heritage Film Debate", in Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book (Second Edition, BFI Publishing, 2001), ISBN 0-85170-851-X, pp. 191-99. (To be revised and expanded in 2007.)

• "Monkey Feathers: Defending Zulu", in Claire Monk and Amy Sargeant (eds), British Historical Cinema (Routledge, 2002) ISBN 0-415-23810-2, pp. 110-28.

• "Tall Revenue Features: The Genealogy of the Contemporary Blockbuster", in Steve Neale (ed.), Genre and Contemporary Hollywood (BFI Publishing, 2002), ISBN 0-85170-887-0, pp. 11-26.

• "Carpenter’s Widescreen Style", in Ian Conrich and David Woods (eds), The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror (Wallflower Press, 2004), ISBN 1-904764-14-2, pp. 66-77.

• "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 (McGraw-Hill/ Open University Press, 2006), ISBN 0-335-21831-8, pp. 26-28, 46-49, 164-81.

• Six entries in Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau (eds), Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood (BFI Publishing, 2006), ISBN 1-84457-124-6, pp. 170, 196-98, 240, 276-77, 336-37, 469.

• Thirty-nine entries in Robert Murphy (ed.), Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Guide (BFI Publishing, 2006), ISBN 1-84457-126-2.

• Three chapters in Ian Cameron (ed.), Unexplored Hitchcock (Moffat: Cameron and Hollis, forthcoming).

Journal Articles

• "Selling Religion: How to Market a Biblical Epic", Film History, 14: 2 (2002), pp. 170-85.
• "Dial M for Murder", Film History, 16: 2 (2004), pp. 243-55.
• "Rodslovlje modernog blockustera", Hrvatski filmski Ljetopis, 40 (2004) pp. 5-16 (Croatian translation of ‘Tall Revenue Features’ [see above] in Neale, Genre and Contemporary Hollywood).
• Review article, "British Social Realism: In Print and on DVD", in Viewfinder, no. 54 (March 2004), pp. 8-10.
• Book reviews, "British Social Realism: From Documentary to Brit Grit" and "J. Lee Thompson", both in Journal of British Cinema and Television, 1:2 (2004), pp. 306-09, 321-24.
• "The Hills Are Alive in East Anglia: The Sound of Music Comes to Norwich", Picture House, no. 30 (2005), pp. 34-39.
• Book review, "ABC: The First Name in Entertainment", et al., Journal of British Cinema and Television, 3:1 (2006), pp. 188-91.
• Internet Article: "Size Still Matters! The 2004 Oslo 70mm Film Festival", posted 1 October 2004, in70mm.com: The 70mm Newsletter (http://www.in70mm.com/news/2004/oslo/oslo_2004.htm)

Other writings

• An Opera of Violence - Documentary on Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West
• Something to Do with Death - Further documentary on Once Upon a Time in the West
• The Wages of Sin - Further documentary on Once Upon a Time in the West

The above three titles are featured on the 2003 special edition DVD release of Once Upon a Time in the West

• The Making of 'Zulu': ...and Snappeth the Spear in Sunder - Documentary available on the 2002 special edition DVD release of Cy Endfield's Zulu

DVD commentaries

• Zulu with second unit director Robert Porter.
• Once Upon a Time in the West with John Carpenter, John Milius, Alex Cox and Sir Christopher Frayling.

Television appearances

• The 100 Greatest War Films - Channel 4's 2005 countdown of the best films of the genre.
• 50 Films to See Before You Die - Another Channel 4 countdown aimed to help the free-to-air launch of their Film4 channel.

Radio appearances

• Slam Dunk Cinema - Interview with Van Connor for Sheffield Live 93.2FM on 13th August 2011.

External links

• Sheldon Hall at the Internet Movie Database
• Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It
• in70mm.com