{"product_id":"they-live-isbn-9781593762780","title":"They Live","description":"\u003cb\u003e“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.”—\u003ci\u003eHartford Advocate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeep Focus\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThey Live\u003c\/i\u003e, John Carpenter’s 1988 classic amalgam of deliberate B-movie, sci-fi, horror, anti-Yuppie agitprop.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLethem 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—\u003ci\u003eThey Live\u003c\/i\u003e provides a wholly original perspective on Carpenter’s subversive classic.\u003cb\u003eJonathan Lethem\u003c\/b\u003e was born in New York and attended Bennington College. He is the author of seven novels including \u003ci\u003eFortress of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMotherless Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named Novel of the Year by \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award, as well as the Macallan Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger. He has also written two short story collections, a novella and a collection of essays, and was the founding fiction editor of \u003ci\u003eFence\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. His writings have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney’s\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other periodicals. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301147037925,"sku":"NP9781593762780","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781593762780.jpg?v=1767742426","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/they-live-isbn-9781593762780","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}