David EldridgeDavid Eldridge is senior lecturer in American Studies at the University of Hull, UK. He is the author of Hollywood’s History Films (2008) and is currently working on a monograph concerning the impact that censorship has had on the Amercan film industry’s representations of the past. His other publications on this subject include “Some Like It Hot and the Virtues of Not Taking History Too Seriously” in Hollywood and the American Historical Film, ed. J.E Smyth (2012), and “Bennett, Breen and the Birdman of Alcatraz,” in Film History 28.2 (2016). Read More Read Less