Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield Hallam film studies lecturer Dr Emmie McFadden has spoken to BBC Culture about the 1972 film Cabaret and its groundbreaking depictions of sexuality: “This film was released only three years after the Stonewall Riots, which was the single most important event that the led to the gay liberation movement in the US. The first Pride parade happened one year after Stonewall, […]
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Dr Sheldon Hall, Reader in Stage & Screen, Department of Humanities, has published an article written in conjunction with thirty undergraduate students taking courses in Film Studies and Screenwriting & Film. The 15,000-word article, ‘Figures in Focus’, appears in the new edition of Picture House, the annual journal of the Cinema Theatre Association. It was based on the students’ analysis […]
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City of Westminster Libraries and Archives are hosting a lecture by Dr Sheldon Hall titled ‘Appointments with Fear: The Programming of Horror Films on British Television’, on 29th October 2021 at 18.30 – 19.30 BST. Tickets are free and available via Eventbrite. About this event Countless horror fans owe their love of the genre to their first exposure to it on […]
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Title: Pigeons, Rooftops and Heterotopia in ‘On the Waterfront’ and ‘Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai’ Speaker: Dr Chi-Yun Shin (Stage & Screen, SHU) Dr Chi-Yun Shin is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. Her articles on East Asian cinema and Black British Diaspora films have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and her recent […]
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One of the best-loved and most enduringly popular British films ever made, Zulu tells the epic story of the Battle of Rorke’s Drift of 1879, in which barely 150 soldiers of the British Army in South Africa fought for twelve hours to defend an isolated mission station against an attack by 4,000 highly disciplined Zulu warriors. Here is the full […]
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Title: SEX, SPIES AND SHIRLEY TEMPLE: Feature Films on British Television in the 1970s Speaker: Dr Sheldon Hall (Stage & Screen, SHU) Dr Sheldon Hall is a Senior Lecturer in Stage & Screen Studies in the Faculty of Development and Society at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It – The Making of […]
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