Böcker av David Eldridge

Focusing on the 1950s when Hollywood's interest in the past was at its peak, this book reconstructs how filmmakers understood their treatment of the past, suggesting why many of them saw their work as superior to that of professional historians. It explains how and why Hollywood blurs the boundaries between fiction and historical reality.

It's the dog days of summer and Joshua and Tili are ready for a visit to the lake. Mom loads up the car with sand toys, big fluffy beach towels, and a cooler stuffed with cold drinks and tasty snacks. Join Joshua and Tili on their next big adventure as they travel up to Lake Wawasee in Syracuse, Indiana. Follow along as they visit with cousins, take a boat ride with grandpa, and bounce along on a giant water tube. Spend the day on the lake with Joshua and Tili soaking up sun and catching fish in this water filled adventure.

It's the 4th of July and Joshua and Tili have made plans to visit the boardwalk at the Jersey shore. The day is very hot and sunny. The air feels muggy and wet. Joshua and Tili don't mind it though. They know the boardwalk means sweet treats, fun rides, and tonight... fireworks to celebrate the 4th of July. Joshua and Tili are visiting the boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey to celebrate the 4th of July. They can't wait to walk the sandy wooden planks surrounded by stores, beaches, and ocean. Follow along on their bright and sunny adventure as they play miniature golf, feast on a giant pizza, enjoy delicious ice cream, play in the sand, and watch bright beautiful fireworks light up the night sky.

This book provides an insightful overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and a chapter on the role of the federal government in the development of the arts. The intellectual context of 1930s American culture is a strong feature, whilst case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade - from War of the Worlds to The Grapes of Wrath and from Edward Hopper to the Rockefeller Centre - help to explain the cultural impulses of radicalism, nationalism and escapism that characterize the United States in the 1930s.

First collection by a young dramatist with few peers. This volume showcases the best four early plays by the writer behind the smash hit stage adaptation of Festen Serving It Up - a 'precociously deceptive' debut play about East End loutishness.

Five of the best plays from the first decade of the twenty-first century produced by the Royal Court Theatre, London. Royal Court Plays 2000-2010 is an essential anthology for anyone interested in the best work from the most important new writing theatre produced during the last decade.

Learn a good wind-up, learn the pull of cash, learn drugs, learn sex, and run wild with the market monkeys. Stay sharp in the ruthless world of Essex traders. Romford Market, 1985 - this boy has everything to learn. This work presents a story about losing your innocence, and your cherry.

"Trash for starters, Tories for seconds: David Eldridge is Serving it up again" (Independent)

It's the end of a century, a time for people to look back and try to make sense of who they are. Across six connected lives, repressed emotion are brought to the fore in an attempt to settle the score with the world around them.

There is one in the Kingdom of England. Who goes by the name of Richard the Lionheart. My waking dreams tell me he will come upon us. He will come to these lands and make pilgrimage, conquest.Saladin's great army have corrected a great wrong by taking Jerusalem back for Islam, after the barbaric slaughter of their people one hundred years ago. But for Muslim and Christian alike Jerusalem is a holy city. Across England and Outremer, nobles answer the call to arms from Richard the Lionheart to march on Jerusalem in the third crusade and retake the Holy City from Saladin.Holy Warriors is a tale of holy war, fraught diplomacy and revenge in the struggle for Jerusalem, taking in over a millennium of bloody conflict, as Richard the Lionheart marches east to face Saladin, and takes Jerusalem.This edition published to coincide with the play's premiere at Shakespeare's Globe, London, on 19 July 2014.

In Basildon is an epic family drama exploring inheritance and the myth of place.

The Knot of the Heart is a powerfully honest portrait of a young woman struggling with addiction. Returning home to her mother and sister, Lucy becomes self-obsessed and self-destructive as she simultaneously wants to end her drug habit and deny that it even exists.

Set in a time of political and social unrest the play focuses on one family and the destructive conflict within their home.

The play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in may 2005.