Colin Shindler
Colin Shindler (born 1949) is an English author, social historian and affiliated lecturer in history at Cambridge University.[1]
He should not be confused with another English academic and historian, also called Colin Shindler, born in 1946, who specialises in the history of modern Israel.[2]
Life and career
[edit | edit source]Born in Manchester,[3] Colin Shindler grew up in Prestwich.[4] He graduated with a degree in history from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he later completed his PhD thesis on Hollywood and the Great Depression. Since 1998 he has been lecturing and teaching at Cambridge on films and American history.[3][5]
He has written numerous books on British and American cultural history, with an emphasis on the impact of sport and film on modern society.[1] Manchester United Ruined My Life (1998) and Manchester City Ruined My Life (2012) are a pair of memoirs about his support for Manchester City.[6] He also wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film Buster and worked as a scriptwriter and television producer in England between 1977 and 1996,[1][3] for shows including Lovejoy, Juliet Bravo, and Heartbeat.[4]
Shindler is the brother of lawyer Geoffrey Shindler and the uncle of television producer Nicola Shindler.[7] His daughter is the actress Amy Shindler.[4]
Books
[edit | edit source]Nonfiction
[edit | edit source]- Hollywood Goes to War: Films and American Society, 1939–1952 (1979)[8]
- Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society, 1929–1939 (1996)[9]
- Fathers, Sons and Football (2001)[10]
- George Best and 21 Others (2004)[11]
- Garbo and Gilbert in Love: Hollywood's First Great Celebrity Couple (2005)
- National Service: From Aldershot to Aden: Tales from the Conscripts, 1946–62 (2012)[12]
- The Professional Amateur: The Cricketing Life of Bob Barber (2015)
- Four Lions: The Lives and Times of Four Captains of England (2016)
- Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches: The Controversial South African Tour of 1970 (2020)
Fiction
[edit | edit source]- Buster: A Novel Based on His Own Original Screenplay (1988)
- High on a Cliff (1999)[4]
- First Love, Second Chance (2002)
- The Worst of Friends: Malcolm Allison, Joe Mercer and Manchester City (2009)[13]
- The Worst of Friends: The Betrayal of Joe Mercer (2011)
Memoirs
[edit | edit source]Edited
[edit | edit source]- I'm Sure I Speak for Many Others ... : Unpublished Letters to the BBC (2017)
References
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- Richard Robertson, Winterthur Portfolio, JSTOR 1180841
- Lenny Rubenstein, Cinéaste, JSTOR 41692434
- Gerald Weales, "What Price Hollywood?", The Georgia Review, JSTOR 41398376
- Ralph Willett, Journal of American Studies, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., JSTOR 27553912
- Neil A. Wynn, History, JSTOR 24414011
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- Armando Soba Joseph, Revue Française d'Études Américaines, [1]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Colin Shindler at IMDb
- Colin Shindler discussing Manchester City’s Premier League title in 2012 on YouTube
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- 1949 births
- Living people
- 20th-century English historians
- 21st-century English historians
- 20th-century English memoirists
- 21st-century English memoirists
- 20th-century English novelists
- 21st-century English novelists
- 20th-century English screenwriters
- Writers from Manchester
- Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
- Academics of the University of Cambridge
- Cricket writers
- English sportswriters
- English television producers
- Academics of the Institute of Continuing Education
- British social historians
- Historians of the United States
- British cultural historians