Graham S. Clarke, Ross Clarke

The American Dream and American Cinema in the Age of Trump (eBook, ePUB)

From Object Relations to Social Relations

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book uses film theory and insights from object relations theory to examine how recent films address and reflect the state of the 'American Dream'. It looks at how the American Dream is one of the organizing ideas of American cinema, and one of the most influential cultural outputs of the 21st century, at a time of internal crisis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000615531
• Artikelnr.: 64150182

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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)
References