They Live: A Novel Approach to Cinema by Jonathan Lethem

Author:Jonathan Lethem [Lethem, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Film, History, Criticism, Non-Fiction, Performing Arts, Popular Culture, Social Science
ISBN: 9781593763930
Google: zXA7AAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B004ASOQTE
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2010-10-09T23:00:00+00:00

Ghoul Motivation

Look at the front pages of our daily newspapers. Every title, especially when it pretends just to inform us, contains an implicit injunction. So when you are asked to choose between liberal democracy and fundamentalism, it is not only that one term is obviously preferred; what is more important, the true injunction is to see this as the true choice, to ignore third options. So, again, naïve as it may seem, the film’s staging of ideology is nonetheless more complex than it may appear. Once you put the glasses on and see it, it no longer determines you. Which means that before you see it through the glasses, you also saw it, but you were not aware of it.

—Slavoj Žižek, “They Live! Hollywood as an Ideological Machine”

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