They live
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Author
Contributions
- Howe, Sean - Contributor
Publication
2010 - Distributed by Publishers Group West, Berkeley, CA, California
Language
English
Word Count
40,750 words, Guess
Page Count
163 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-10159376278X
- ISBN-139781593762780
- Library of Congress Control Number2010013025
- OCLC Control Number607573931
- Better World Books9781593762780
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL24468037M
Classifications
- DDC791.43/72
- LCCPN1997.T4275 L48 2010
- LCCPN1997.T4275L48 2010
Description
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. His field of reference spans classic Hollywood cinema and science fiction, as well as popular music and contemporary art and theory. Taking into consideration the work of Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, James Brown, Fredric Jameson, Shepard Fairey, Philip K. Dick, Alfred Hitchcock, and Edgar Allan Poe, not to mention the role of wrestlers—including They Live star “Rowdy” Roddy Piper—in contemporary culture, Lethem’s They Live provides a wholly original perspective on Carpenter’s subversive classic.
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Topics
Series Statement
- Deep focus
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