{"product_id":"they-live-a-novel-approach-to-cinema-9781593762780","title":"They Live: A Novel Approach to Cinema","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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-202113\"\u003eJonathan Lethem\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Soft Skull\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.60h x 4.80w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781593762780\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 159376278X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PER\"\u003ePerforming Arts\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PER004030\"\u003eFilm | History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42666725146861,"sku":"9781593762780","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_d63a4e84-7425-43be-94ba-a8bf1acaf2fa.jpg?v=1649435360","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/they-live-a-novel-approach-to-cinema-9781593762780","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}