Graham S. Clarke is a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK. He has published books and papers on Ronald Fairbairn's object relations-based psychology of dynamic structure and its application to the arts.

Ross Clarke is a screenwriter and director. He is a Lecturer in Film at Met Film School, UK. His films include Skid Row, a documentary about the acute homeless problem in downtown Los Angeles, the dramatic features The Birdcatcher and Desiree (aka The Chemist) and a football documentary about Brighton and Hove Albion FC. He is currently developing a film about Jorge Luis Borges based on the book by Jay Parini.

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 (Iñárritu, 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)

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