Jeff Shannon

{{Short description|American film critic (1961–2013)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2013}}

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| birth_name = Jeffrey Alan Shannon

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1961|7|15}}

| birth_place = Seattle, Washington, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|12|20|1961|7|15}}

| death_place = Snohomish County, Washington, U.S.

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| occupation = Journalist
film critic

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| known_for = Disability activism[https://facingdisability.com/blog/remembering-jeff-shannon-1961-2013 facingdisability.com]

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Jeffrey Alan Shannon (July 15, 1961 – December 20, 2013) was an American film critic, born and based in Seattle. He was best known for his work with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1985–92) and The Seattle Times (1992–2013).{{cite book|author=Katherine RenŽe Henninger|title=Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=524nfFdMFUsC&pg=PA122|access-date=August 3, 2012|date=April 9, 2007|publisher=UNC Press Books|isbn=978-0-8078-3112-0|page=122}}{{cite book|last=Hall|first=Halbert W.|title=Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index, 1992-1995: An International Subject and Author Index to History and Criticism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rkm0FmwQGzoC&pg=PA464|access-date=August 3, 2012|year=1997|publisher=Libraries Unlimited|isbn=978-1-56308-527-7|page=464}}{{cite book|title=The Video librarian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ru_gAAAAMAAJ|access-date=August 3, 2012|year=2005|publisher=Randy Pitman|page=3|isbn = 9781417228355}}{{cite book|title=From Where I'm Sitting|url=http://www.facingdisability.com/blog/?p=849|access-date=October 10, 2013|year=2013}}

Shannon studied film history, theory and criticism at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He was the assistant editor of Microsoft Cinemania CD-ROM and website movie encyclopedia (1992–98), and the original DVD section editor in the Home Video department of Amazon.com (1998–2001). He also contributed video-on-demand reviews for the late Roger Ebert's website (2011–13)

He was injured on the island of Maui in 1979 two weeks after graduating from high school, leaving him with a C-5/6 quadriplegia. In addition to writing occasional articles for New Mobility magazine, he served two three-year terms on the Washington State Governor's Committee on Disability Issues and Employment{{cite web | url=http://www.esd.wa.gov/newsandinformation/legresources/gcde/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015022432/http://www.esd.wa.gov/newsandinformation/legresources/gcde/ | archive-date=October 15, 2013 | title=The Governor's Committee on Disability Issues and Employment }} (2005–11). He also wrote a column, "From Where I'm Sitting", for FacingDisability.com.

Shannon died of pneumonia on December 20, 2013.Rogerebert.com, [http://www.rogerebert.com/far-flung-correspondents/jeff-shannon-remembered Jeff Shannon Remembered]. Retrieved December 21, 2013.