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
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*"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.

External links

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* [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0953192660 Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It]
* [http://www.in70mm.com in70mm.com]