Dr David Eldridge's Outputs (12)

Neon, for the Lonely: Exploring Gay Men's History and Well-Being through Memoir-Based Reality Reconstructions (2025)
Thesis
Commerford, M. (2025). Neon, for the Lonely: Exploring Gay Men's History and Well-Being through Memoir-Based Reality Reconstructions. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5086279

Neon, for the Lonely: Exploring Gay Men’s History and Well-Being through Memoir-Based Reality Reconstructions is both an adapted memoir and an exegesis that charts a PhD journey of self-empowerment, and healing through the lens of a queer individual'... Read More about Neon, for the Lonely: Exploring Gay Men's History and Well-Being through Memoir-Based Reality Reconstructions.

Playing it Safer: Applied Drama as a means of reducing barriers to LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sports and education environments (2024)
Journal Article
Eldridge, D., Fielding, L., & Dickenson, S. J. (online). Playing it Safer: Applied Drama as a means of reducing barriers to LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sports and education environments. Support for Learning, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9604.12497

In a context where more than 40% of LGBTQIA+ individuals in the UK are estimated to avoid sports due to experiences of discrimination, with disengagement closely linked to negative experiences during physical education at school, the ability of speci... Read More about Playing it Safer: Applied Drama as a means of reducing barriers to LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sports and education environments.

Conventions are Forever: The influence of medieval romance narrative conventions on female agency in the Bond film franchise (2024)
Thesis
Morton, J. Conventions are Forever: The influence of medieval romance narrative conventions on female agency in the Bond film franchise. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4866115

The iconic Bond girl has been the subject of considerable scholarly interest; quite rightly this has mainly focused on areas such as 'stereotypical' female behaviours, chauvinism and the sexual objectification of women. In a unique analysis, I consid... Read More about Conventions are Forever: The influence of medieval romance narrative conventions on female agency in the Bond film franchise.

Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films (2020)
Book
Fenwick, J., Foster, K., & Eldridge, D. (Eds.). (2020). Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501351624

Filmmakers and cinema industries across the globe invest more time, money and creative energy in projects and ideas that never get produced than in the movies that actually make it to the screens. Thousands of projects are abandoned in pre-production... Read More about Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films.

Gone With the Winds That Never Were: The David O. Selznick Archive and Unmade Historical Cinema (2020)
Book Chapter
Eldridge, D. (2020). Gone With the Winds That Never Were: The David O. Selznick Archive and Unmade Historical Cinema. In J. Fenwick, K. Foster, & D. Eldridge (Eds.), Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films (39-56). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501351624.ch-002

'We're Only Kids Now, But Someday...': Hollywood Musicals and the Great Depression Youth Crisis' (2016)
Book Chapter
Eldridge, D. (2016). 'We're Only Kids Now, But Someday...': Hollywood Musicals and the Great Depression Youth Crisis'. In I. Morgan, & P. John Davies (Eds.), Hollywood and the Great Depression: American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s (216-238). Edinburgh University Press

Bennett, Breen, and the Birdman of Alcatraz: A case study of collaborative censorship between the production code administration and the federal bureau of prisons (2016)
Journal Article
Eldridge, D. (2016). Bennett, Breen, and the Birdman of Alcatraz: A case study of collaborative censorship between the production code administration and the federal bureau of prisons. Film History, 28(2), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.2979/filmhistory.28.2.02

In bringing to the screen the life of murderer Robert Stroud in Birdman of Alcatraz (United Artists, 1962), filmmakers encountered official obstruction from the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, James V. Bennett. Campaigning for the release... Read More about Bennett, Breen, and the Birdman of Alcatraz: A case study of collaborative censorship between the production code administration and the federal bureau of prisons.

Britain finds Andy Hardy: British cinema audiences and the American way of life in the Second World War (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eldridge, D. Britain finds Andy Hardy: British cinema audiences and the American way of life in the Second World War

American culture in the 1930s (2008)
Book
Eldridge, D. (2008). American culture in the 1930s. Edinburgh University Press

A clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade.

The generic American psycho (2008)
Journal Article
Eldridge, D. (2008). The generic American psycho. Journal of American Studies, 42(1), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875807004355

Following Elizabeth Young's 1991 analysis of the controversy surrounding the publication of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, this article discusses the efforts of the makers of the 2000 film adaptation to "rehabilitate" the novel. It explores the... Read More about The generic American psycho.

Filming Our Town (1940) or the problem of “looking at everything hard enough"
Book Chapter
Eldridge, D. Filming Our Town (1940) or the problem of “looking at everything hard enough". In Modern American drama on screen. The University of Hull

Some like it hot and the virtues of not taking history too seriously
Book Chapter
Eldridge, D. Some like it hot and the virtues of not taking history too seriously. In Hollywood and the American historical film. The University of Hull