Maverick British filmmaker Alex Cox is responsible for directing a host of acclaimed films from Sleep is for Sissies, Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell, Walker and Highway Patrolman to Death and the Compass, Three Businessmen, Revenger's Tragedy, Searchers 2.0 and more recently Tombstone Rashomon. From 1987 to 1994, he presented the acclaimed BBC TV series 'Moviedrome', bringing unknown or forgotten films to new audiences. He's also the author of X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker, 10, 000 Ways to Die, The President and the Provocateur and Alex Cox's Introduction to Film and has written on the subject of film for publications including Sight and Sound, The Guardian, The Independent and Film Comment.
9 Ebooks by Alex Cox
Alex Cox: I Am (Not) A Number
The enormously puzzling TV series THE PRISONER has developed a rapt cult following (author Alex Cox watched all the episodes on their first broadcast, at the ripe old age of 13), and has often been …
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€11.99
Alex Cox: 10, 000 Ways to Die
Forty years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10, 000 Ways to Die. It's an embarrassing tome: full of half-assed semiotics and other attenuated academic …
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€15.59
Alex Cox: President and the Provocateur
The President and the Provocateur explores the parallel lives of John F. Kennedy, born into wealth and celebrity, destined for glory and a violent death, and of Lee Harvey Oswald, born into poverty …
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€7.29
Alex Cox: Alex Cox’s Introduction to Film
Emerging filmmakers need to know the basics of their art form: the language of the camera, and lenses, the different crew roles, the formats, the aspect ratios. They also need to know some bare-bones …
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English
€10.00
Alex Cox: The President and the Provocateur
President John F. Kennedy was said to have been murdered by a lone crazed gunman in a Dallas motorcade a half-century ago. The accused killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was also murdered under mysterious ci …
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€15.99
Alex Cox: X Films
Philip French has called Alex Cox, ”British Cinema”s oldest enfant terrible”; it”s a description that its recipient fully approves of. He is the genuine article, a radical, international, …
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€44.97
Alex Cox: I Am (Not) a Number
The enormously puzzling TV series The Prisoner has developed a rapt cult following, and has often been described as "surreal" or "Kafkaesque." In I Am (Not) a Number, Cox takes an …
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English
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€12.51
Alex Cox: Alex Cox’s Introduction to Film
Emerging filmmakers need to know the basics of their art form: the language of the camera, and lenses, the different crew roles, the formats, the aspect ratios. They also need to know some bare-bones …
PDF
English
DRM
€18.75
Alex Cox: X Films
Philip French has called Alex Cox, ”British Cinema”s oldest enfant terrible”; it”s a description that its recipient fully approves of. He is the genuine article, a radical, international, …
PDF
DRM
€44.98
