Table of Contents
Jonathan Lethem THEY LIVE
Title Page
Dedication
Praise
What You’ll Recall of the Dream in the Morning
Note on Approach I
Note on Approach II
Note on Names
Note on Diegesis and Ideology and Peekaboo
Note on Notes
The Opening of the Eyes
(0:00)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Bum-Bum-Bum, Waaah-Wah
Bums
(2:18)
Auteurs within Auteurs
Employment Agency
(3:05)
Outside the Limit of Our Sight, Feeding Off Us, Perched on Top of Us from Birth ...
(3:50)
“Rowdy” Roddy Piper
Television Made Me What I Am
(4:49)
Union Sundown
(5:59)
Gay Porn
(6:37)
The Black Guy and the White Guy, Together Again for the First Time
Individual Ethics under Late Capitalism
(9:48)
Hacker
(12:01)
Truth Hurts
Fake Church Conspirators
(16:40)
Assorted Hoffmen
Drifter I
(20:03)
Villainous Vehicles
(22:40)
Disruptions, Discontinuities, Departures
Life During Wartime
(26:26)
Half-Hour Mark
(30:00)
The Next Six (or Eight, or Ten) Minutes of Film
Cheap Sunglasses
(31:18)
The Mad Flaneur
(32:07)
They Colorized It
Impossible Eloquent Cityscape
(33:29)
Graffiti and Text Art
Golf Magazine and Paperback Spinner-Rack
(34:02)
A Countenance
(34:32)
News Vendor
(35:27)
Code and Canon
Ghoul Motivation
Stunned Maid
(36:25)
Grocery Store
(36:40)
Into the Cheese Dip
(38:01)
Is Nada the Stupidest Person in the Movie?
Bifurcation
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Not Us
(39:30)
Quip in a Bank
(41:04)
Not a Cop-Hater as Such
(42:28)
Thirty-Nine Steps
(43:11)
Porn Again
(54:56)
The Puzzle of Holly
One Great Shot
(49:57)
Vertical City Inhospitable to Horizontal Man
(50:06)
Jump Back in the Alley
(52:19)
Garbage Truck
(53:45)
Fight, Fight
(55:23)
Fleabag Hotel
(1:02:05)
Long Night of the Soul
(1:04:48)
A Recent Scourge as Old as Mankind Itself
Something in the Water Does Not Compute
The Futility of Collective Action
(1:07:42)
Meet John Doe
Another Alley
(1:14:41)
War Movie, Science-Fiction Movie
(1:16:14)
Human Power Elite
(1:17:58)
Drifter’s Escape
(1:19:07)
Inside Television
(1:24:09)
Workplace Shooting
(1:24:33)
Sympathy for the Ghouls
Pregnant Secretary with Coffeepot
(1:25:04)
Tiny Alphaville Homage
(1:26:35)
Holly Kills
(1:27:15)
Rooftop
(1:27:56)
In Living Color
(1:29:56)
The End
(1:30:21)
Grade: B+
NOTES
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