Colin Shindler

Colin Shindler (born 1949) is an English author, social historian and affiliated lecturer in history at Cambridge University.{{cite web | url = https://www.hachette.com.au/colin-shindler/ | title = Colin Shindler| publisher = Hachette Australia| accessdate =16 February 2020}}

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.{{cite web | url = http://colinshindler.com/about-colin | title = About| publisher = colinshindler.com | accessdate =16 February 2020}}

Life and career

Born in Manchester, Colin Shindler grew up in Prestwich. 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.{{cite web | url = https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/cs476@cam.ac.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216031624/https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/cs476@cam.ac.uk/|archive-date=2020-02-16|url-status=dead| title = Dr Colin Shindler| publisher = University of Cambridge| accessdate =16 February 2020}}{{cite web | url = https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/tutor/dr-colin-shindler| title = Dr Colin Shindler| date = 3 December 2015| publisher = Institute of Continuing Education}}

He has written numerous books on British and American cultural history, with an emphasis on the impact of sport and film on modern society. Manchester United Ruined My Life (1998) and Manchester City Ruined My Life (2012) are a pair of memoirs about his support for Manchester City.{{cite web |last=Farrell|first=Ian| url = https://www.wsc.co.uk/reviews/59-Clubs/9026-manchester-city-ruined-my-life| title = Manchester City Ruined My Life | publisher = When Saturday Comes | accessdate =16 February 2020}} He also wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film Buster and worked as a scriptwriter and television producer in England between 1977 and 1996, for shows including Lovejoy, Juliet Bravo, and Heartbeat.

Shindler is the brother of lawyer Geoffrey Shindler and the uncle of television producer Nicola Shindler.{{cite web|url=http://www.artisanmc.co.uk/2011/02/20/geoffrey-shindler/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117131447/http://www.artisanmc.co.uk/2011/02/20/geoffrey-shindler/|archive-date=2018-01-17|url-status=usurped|title=Geoffrey Shindler – service to the arts recognized|type=Press release|first=Rob|last=Baker|date=20 February 2011|publisher=Artisan Marketing Communications}}{{better source|date=June 2023}} His daughter is the actress Amy Shindler.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/hanging-on-the-edge-of-the-cliff/26260971.html|title=Hanging on the edge of the cliff|date=18 Sep 1999|first=Declan|last=McCormack|newspaper=Irish Independent}}

Books

=Nonfiction=

Hollywood Goes to War: Films and American Society, 1939–1952 (1979)Reviews of Hollywood Goes to War:
Richard H. Pells, The Journal of American History, {{doi|10.2307/1890492}}, {{jstor|1890492}}
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, {{doi|10.1017/S0021875800002802 }}, {{jstor|27553912}}
Neil A. Wynn, History, {{jstor|24414011}}
Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society, 1929–1939 (1996)Reviews of Hollywood in Crisis:
Michael Coyne, Journal of American Studies, {{doi|10.1017/S0021875898405826}}, {{jstor|27556346}}
Armando Soba Joseph, Revue Française d'Études Américaines, [https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1997_num_73_1_1959_t1_0122_0000_3]
Eric Smoodin, Film Quarterly, {{doi|10.2307/3697150}}, {{jstor|3697150}}
Fathers, Sons and Football (2001)Reviews of Fathers, Sons and Football:
{{cite news|first=Simon|last=Hattenstone|title=Utter balls|newspaper=The Guardian|date=29 June 2001|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jun/30/sportandleisure}}
{{cite news|title=Family charts football's journey from sport to soap|newspaper=The Independent|first=Chris|last=Maume|date=15 June 2001|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/fathers-sons-and-football-by-colin-shindler-9263267.html}}
George Best and 21 Others (2004){{cite news|title=Team spirit and hot air (review of George Best and 21 Others and Red Mist)|newspaper=The Independent|date=21 May 2004|first=Ray|last=Ryan|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/george-best-and-21-others-by-colin-shindlerred-mist-by-conor-o-callaghan-61340.html}}
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){{cite magazine|magazine=The Spectator|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/national-service-by-colin-shindler/|title=National Service, by Colin Shindler|date=18 August 2012|first=Peter|last=Jay}}
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=

Buster: A Novel Based on His Own Original Screenplay (1988)
High on a Cliff (1999)
First Love, Second Chance (2002)
The Worst of Friends: Malcolm Allison, Joe Mercer and Manchester City (2009){{cite news|title=Book review: The Worst of Friends|work=BBC Sport|first=Julian|last=Taylor|date=25 April 2009|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/8000414.stm}}
The Worst of Friends: The Betrayal of Joe Mercer (2011)

=Memoirs=

Manchester United Ruined My Life (1998)
Manchester City Ruined My Life (2012){{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/sport-book-of-the-week-manchester-city-ruined-my-life-by-colin-shindler-7878678.html|newspaper=The Independent|title=Sport book of the week: Manchester City Ruined My Life|date=23 June 2012|first=Simon|last=Redfern}}