HOME View All Genre

Book

Audiobook

GENRES 🌙 Dark

They Live - Jonathan Lethem & Sean Howe

By Jonathan Lethem & Sean Howe

Release Date: 2010-10-10

Genre: Social Science

(0 ratings)
Read Download
“One of the cleverest, most accessibly in-depth film books released this year . . . a smart-ass novelist exploring a cheesy-cheeky ‘80s sci-fi flick.”—Hartford Advocate

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.

They Live - Jonathan Lethem & Sean Howe

By Jonathan Lethem & Sean Howe

Release Date: 2010-10-10

Genre: Social Science

(0 ratings)
Read Download
“One of the cleverest, most accessibly in-depth film books released this year . . . a smart-ass novelist exploring a cheesy-cheeky ‘80s sci-fi flick.”—Hartford Advocate

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.

More by Jonathan Lethem & Sean Howe

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Motherless Brooklyn

The Fortress of Solitude

Dissident Gardens

The Feral Detective

A Gambler's Anatomy

Chronic City

Brooklyn Crime Novel

The Ecstasy of Influence

The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

The Man Who Was Thursday

Girl in Landscape

Cyberpunk

As She Climbed Across the Table

Gun, with Occasional Music

Selected Stories Of Philip K. Dick

Big Bang

The Disappointment Artist

Store of the Worlds

You Don't Love Me Yet

On the Yard

The Best American Mystery Stories 2019

A Different Kind of Tension

Dombey and Son

Mind of an Outlaw

Lit Riffs

A Meaningful Life

The Arrest

PEN America 8: Making Histories

Amnesia Moon

Talking Heads' Fear of Music

Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z

Fridays at Enrico's

The Wall Of The Sky, The Wall Of The Eye

Ancient History

They Live

The Best American Comics 2015

Motherless Brooklyn

Chronic City

Brooklyn senza madre. Motherless Brooklyn

HuĂŠrfanos de Brooklyn

Chronic City

Der Garten der Dissidenten

The Blot

Die Festung der Einsamkeit

Les Orphelins de Brooklyn

AnatomĂ­a de un jugador

Dissidentparken

Anatomie eines Spielers

El detective salvaje

Related Articles