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They Live
A work of Non-fiction by Jonathan Lethem
Subgenres:
- Film Criticism,
- Cult Film,
- Science Fiction & Fantasy Criticism
This book is for you if you're into...
- Deep dives into cult sci-fi films and their cultural impact
- Film criticism that weaves in music, art, and pop theory
Deep Focus is a series of film books with a fresh approach. Take the smartest, liveliest writers in contemporary letters and let them loose on the most vital and popular corners of cinema history: midnight movies, the New Hollywood of the sixties and seventies, film noir, screwball comedies, international cult classics, and more.
Kicking off the series is Jonathan Lethem's take on They Live, John Carpenter's 1988 classic amalgam of deliberate B-movie, sci-fi, horror, anti-Yuppie agitprop. Lethem exfoliates Carpenter's paranoid satire in a series of penetrating, free-associational forays into the context of a story that peels the human masks off the ghoulish overlords of capitalism.
Taking into consideration classic Hollywood cinema and science fiction—as well as popular music and contemporary art and theory—They Live provides a wholly original perspective on Carpenter's subversive classic.
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