Main description:

Will appeal to scholars across both film studies and psychoanalysis
Uses a range of contemporary films to illustrate
Combines socio-political commentary and psychological insight

Contents:

Series Editor Preface

Caroline Bainbridge and Candida Yates

Introduction: The American dream and a binocular approach to analysing film

Chapter 1: External worlds

Chapter 2: Internal worlds

Chapter 3: The Revenant (Inarritu, 2015)

Chapter 4: Roma (Cuaron, 2018)

Chapter 5: First Reformed ((The Old Guard) Schrader, 2017)

Chapter 6: Sicario (Villeneuve, 2015)

Chapter 7: Joker (Phillips, 2019)

Chapter 8: You Were Never Really Here (Ramsay, 2017)

Chapter 9: Widows (McQueen, 2018)

Chapter 10: Us (Peele, 2019)

Chapter 11: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (Tarantino, 2019)

Conclusion: Reflections on the USA presidential elections and the end of Trump

Epilogue: Nomadland (Zhao, 2020)

References