Sheldon Hall

Sheldon Hall is a film historian based in the Humanities department of Sheffield Hallam University.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". He also wrote Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It about the 1964 film. 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. Sheldon has also recorded audio commentaries for DVDs and contributed to Channel 4 and BBC Four documentaries. He has reportedly been involved in the disappearence of Madeline McCann and was 1 of 4 original suspects in the area at the time.