Sheldon Hall lectures in Stage and Screen Studies at Sheffield Hallam University and has written and taught on many aspects of the cinema. He studied Film and Literature at the University of Warwick and received his Masters and Doctorate from the University of East Anglia. A former freelance journalist, reviewing film and theatre for "The Northern Echo "from 1986 to 1997, he has published articles in such journals as "Cinema Retro", "Empire", "Film History", " "the "Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television", the "Journal of British Cinema and Television", " Iluminace", " Picture House"...