Sheldon Hall (film historian)

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

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[edit] Published works

Books

  • 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)

[edit] 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

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