JOHN CARPENTER'S SOCIAL CRITIQUE: CONSPIRACY IN THEY LIVE

The text presents an analysis of the cult American film director John Carpenter's They Live (1988) in the context of the critique of ideology. Its initial methodological settings are the following: to pay attention to the ideological content of the films, which usually do not involve such content; to look for the ideological content in popular including small budget genre films; to see director as a carrier of a particular ideology or as the author, who with the help of the film carries a socio-political statement; detail and at different levels of analysis of the entire movie, not only his promise or his key scenes. The author answers the questions of how the ideology functions in the space of the film, and how dirrector's statement can be related to the concepts of leftist theorists; What are the conspiracy theories in the movies and what is his contribution to the development of contemporary conspiracy discourse.