Martin Hall is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at York St John University. He is a Senior Fellow of the HEA, the Co-Leader of the 'Cinema and Social Justice Project' and the Principal Investigator on a SIGN funded Socio-Economic Injustice Film Curation project. Since completing his PhD in the field of 1960s British and European Art cinema he has lectured at the University of Hull, Lincoln University, and the University of Salford and has published on the works of François Truffaut, Ray Bradbury, Roman Polanski and Woody Allen. His recent publications have centred on the work of Woody Allen and work on Sport Documentaries particularly looking at poetics and mountaineering films.