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Sheldon Hall
is a
film historian
based in the Humanities department of
Sheffield Hallam University
.
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His books include
Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters
(co-written with
Steve Neale
) which Jim Whalley called "an important addition to work considering popular film and film industries".
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[3]
He also wrote
Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It
about
the 1964 film
.
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Biography
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Sheldon teaches in the Film Studies department at
Sheffield Hallam University
, where he has taught since 1997. He was previously a lecturer at the
University of Northumbria
. He had been a freelance journalist and lecturer based in the
North East of England
, and was for eleven years the film and theatre critic of the major regional newspaper, the
Northern Echo
.
[1]
Sheldon has also recorded audio commentaries for DVDs and contributed to Channel 4 and BBC Four documentaries.
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Published works
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Books
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Chapters in books
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- 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
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- "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.
- "Rodoslovlje modernog blockbustera",
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
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- 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
References
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"Staff Profiles: Dr Sheldon Hall"
.
Sheffield Hallam University
. Retrieved
29 July
2015
.
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Whalley, Jim (2011). "Review of Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale, Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History".
New Review of Film and Television Studies
.
9
(2): 241?245.
doi
:
10.1080/17400309.2011.556952
.
S2CID
191624887
.
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Smith, Roslin (2013). "Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: a Hollywood History by Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale (review)".
Journal of Film and Video
.
65
(1): 100?101.
doi
:
10.5406/jfilmvideo.65.1-2.0100
.
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"Film expert set for second Zulu dawn"
.
The Sheffield Star
. 22 January 2014
. Retrieved
29 July
2015
.
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"Sheldon Hall"
. 26 November 2018.
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"Sheldon Hall | Sheffield Hallam University"
.
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Krukones, James H. (2014). "Widescreen Worldwide edited by John Belton, Sheldon Hall, and Steve Neale (review)".
Film & History
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44
(1): 101?103.
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