Alienating the Audience

“They Live” is fear of Reagonomics

Apr 13, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

The Importance of Working Hard

3min

They Live: A Review

2min

Reagan's Boilerplate

2min

I Have Come Here to Chew Bubble Gum and Kick Ass

2min

Escape From New York

2min

The Six Minute Fight

3min

The Ideology of John Carpenter

6min

Reagan and Margaret Thatcher

3min

10.

Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Union

2min

11.

The Man and the Woman

3min

12.

The Class Warfare of Ruddy Piper

2min

13.

The Pre-Matrix of Reality

2min

14.

The Importance of Being a Victim

2min

15.

The Masterstroke of Carpenter's Halloween

4min

16.

Reagan's Degradation

5min

17.

The Frozen Image of Conservatives as Being From the 50s or 60s

3min

18.

The Income Gap and the Wage Gap

4min

19.

The Power of Nuance in a Movie

2min

20.

John Carpenter: A Film on a Shoestring Budget

2min

21.

Kill Bill: A Conversation With Sarah Siskin

4min

John Carpenter’s “They Live” is a cult classic about seeing through societal mirage to glimpse the strings of the puppet masters. It’s also a specific and intentional “primal scream” against Reagonomics. Ron Hayden joins to discuss.

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