Martin Hall

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.

I am the co-founder of the Cinema and Social Justice Project which brings together thinkers from film studies and other disciplines to explore the social potential of film. Our main goal is to demonstrate what the study of film can actually uncover, focusing on the social justice work that cinema does exploring race, gender & sexuality, homelessness, poverty, education, healthcare, and policing, in addition to ecological justice in sustainability, and ecological consciousness and climate anxiety.

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).