A lecturer in film history and criticism, Sheldon's research interests are primarily in American and British cinema, especially large-scale films of the 1950s and 1960s, but he has also been known to enjoy subtitled continental conversation pieces. He is the author of Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It – The Making of the Epic Movie (2005), co-author of Epics, Spectacles and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History (2010) and co-editor of Widescreen Worldwide (2010). A journalist and film reviewer in a former life, he has also recorded DVD audio commentaries, contributed to documentaries on Channel 4 and BBC Four, and has written numerous articles on many aspects of American and British cinema for a wide variety of books and journals. He is currently writing Armchair Cinema: Feature Films on British Television for publication in 2014.
Expertise:
- All aspects of British and American cinema
- Films including Zulu, Once Upon a Time in the West
- Blockbusters and epics
- Films on British television
Notable coverage:
- The Conversation [December 2018] - Nic Roeg and Bernardo Bertolucci: giants of the 70s cinema trod dark new ground in sexual revolution
- The Digital Bits [January 2014] - Zulu 50th Anniversary
- BBC 4 [December 2014] - The Hollywood Epic
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