Sheldon Hall is a film historian based in the Humanities department of Sheffield Hallam University.[1]
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".[2][3] He also wrote Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It about the 1964 film.[4]
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.[5]
The above three titles are featured on the 2003 special edition DVD release of Once Upon a Time in the West