Staff Profile
Dr Martin Hall
Associate Professor
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I am an Associate Professor and the Course Leader for Film and Media studies. My research focuses primarily on European Art Cinema, American Independence, the Mountaineering Documentary and Cinema and Social Justice.
Since completing my PhD in the field of 1960s British and European Art cinema I have lectured at the University of Hull, Lincoln University, the University of Salford, The Pacific Northwest College of Art and Pacific University.
I am particularly interested in supervising PhDs on any topic of European Cinema, Independent Cinema or Cinema and Social Justice.
- School – School of Humanities
- Email – m.hall@yorksj.ac.uk
- Phone – 01904 876 558
- Research - View my work in RaY
- Postgraduate Research Supervisor
Further information
Teaching
I teach across all levels of Film Studies and Media & Communication and I also teach on the Film and Screen Studies MA. Whilst this changes occasionally, at current I am teaching on Research in Practice, Britain on Film, European Cinema, Independent Cinema, Transnational Cinema, Animations and Imaginary Worlds.
Research
I have have published variously on the works of Agnes Varda, Elaine May, François Truffaut, Ray Bradbury, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, the Coen Brothers, Louis Puenzo and more. My last three books were, 'Monstrosity and Global Crisis in Transnational Film, Media and Literature' (2024), 'The Mountain and the Politics of Representation' (2023) and 'Women in the Work of Woody Allen' (2021).
Publications
Books
Rawle, S. & Hall M. eds (2024) Monstrosity and Global Crisis in Transnational Film, Media and Literature. London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Hall, M. & Hall, J. eds (2023) The Mountain and the Politics of Representation. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press
Hall, M ed (2021) Women in the Work of Woody Allen. London: Amsterdam University Press
Book chapters
Hall, M (2024) ‘“Transposed”: Luis Puenzo’s La Peste (1992) and the Danger of Inaction, and Inevitability’ in Monstrosity and Global Crisis in Transnational Film, Media and Literature. London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Hall, M (2023) ‘Tommy Caldwell’s The Push: Climbing, Edgework and Media Perceptions of Risk’ in The Mountain and the Politics of Representation. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press
Hall, M & Kirby, T. (2023) ‘A poet who climbed or a climber who writes poetry: The Poetry of cinema and movement in the Rock-Climbing documentary’: Found in The Art of Fact: The Place of Poetics Within Documentary Filming edited by Keith Marley
Hall, M (2021) ‘She’s a genius, and I don’t use that word casually”: Elaine May’s collaborative relationship with Woody Allen’ in Women in the Work of Woody Allen (Hall ed) Amsterdam University Press
Hall, M (2015) ‘“Thank God the French Exist” The referentiality in the formal elements of film in Deconstructing Harry’ in Referentiality and the films of Woody Allen, Szlezak, Klara ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hall, M, (2013) ‘The Silver Locusts on the Silver Screen: How Ray Bradbury’s Mars confronts the British-Art Cinema of the 1960s’ in Gloria McMillan ed. Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars: biographical, anthropological, literary, scientific and other perspectives. London: McFarland and Co.
Journal articles
Hall, M (2020) Khaki-tinted glasses: Nostalgia and memory at wartime in TV’s M*A*S*H’ in The Journal of Popular Television – March 2020
Hall, M (2017) ‘Roman Polanski’s Treatment of Mutable Identity in his film The Tenant (1976)’ in Cogent Journal of Social Science - March 2017.
Hall, M (2014) ‘Is there any magic in the moonlight? Woody Allen and the absurdity of perfection’ Comedy Studies Journal - December 2014.
Hall, M (2014) ‘Is there any Magic in the Moonlight? Woody Allen and the absurdity of perfection’ Comedy Studies, 5, 2, pp. 104-112.
Conference papers
York St John – March 2024 Online Symposium ‘Mountains and Representation’
Sheffield Hallam – June 2023 - Keynote Speaker ‘Creative Responses to Archive Use in Film’ - For Sheffield Hallam’s ‘Heritage, Community, Archives: Methods, Case Studies, Collaboration’ conference
University of Lincoln – April 2023 ‘Form Meets Message: Documentary Style and Social Justice in Agnes Varda’s Films’ - For the University of Lincoln-hosted annual BAFTSS conference
National Science and Media Museum – March 2023 ‘Embedding Social Justice into Teaching through Film’ - For the Screen Industry Growth Network and the National Science and Media Museum’s ‘The Future is Northern: Skills and Training Conference’
York St John University – July 2019. ‘Extreme Bodies and Bodies in Extremes: What is the Climbing Film’
University of York - September 2017. ‘Eve (1962): Joseph Losey’s Biggest Mistake’
York St John University – June 2017. ‘Who is the Jewish Monster? The Golem and Jewish Diaspora in the gothic tradition and Woody Allen’s Shadows and Fog (1991)’
Sheffield University – May 2017. ‘Children, Childhood and Autobiography in the Work of Woody Allen’
York St John University – May 2017. ‘The significance of psychedelic music in Peter Sykes’ 1968 dystopia, The Committee’
Hull University – March 2016. ‘Material Culture and Collective Memory: The significance of nostalgia and remembered culture at wartime in Larry Gelbart’s M*A*S*H’
University of Huddersfield - November 2013. ‘How Woody Allen’s magical realist rejection of the harsh realities of life has coloured his filmmaking’
Portsmouth University - October 2010. ‘Cross-Dressing in Crises: Identity Anxieties in the Films of Roman Polanski’
Film Production
Nature Matters (Executive Producer, 2024)
Cost of Living (Executive Producer, 2022)
Professional activities
I am an external examiner for Brunel University's MSc Media & Communications and MSc Media & Communications (Practice).
I am a judge for the International Film Festival The Hague and Sunrise Film Festival Lowestoft.
I am an award-winning Film Producer whose films 'Cost of Living' (2022) and 'Nature Matters' (2024) have been shown at nearly 20 film festivals and have won FOCAL and BAFTSS awards.
