They Live (Deep Focus)

Deep Focus is a brand new 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! Kicking off the series is Jonathan Lethem''s take on They Live, John Carpenters 1988 classic amalgam of deliberate B-movie, sci-fi, horror and anti-Yuppie agitprop. Lethem exfoliates Carpenter''s paranoid satire in a series of penetrating, free-associational forays into the context of a surprisingly ''human'' story...