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Overview: Alex Cox (1954) is an English film director, screenwriter, actor, non-fiction author and broadcaster. Cox experienced success early in his career with Repo Man (1984) and Sid and Nancy (1986). Since the release and commercial failure of Walker (1987), his career has moved towards independent films, including Highway Patrolman (1991) and Three Businessmen (1998) and microbudget features such as Searchers 2.0 (2007) and Repo Chick (2009). Cox has taught screenwriting and film production at the University of Colorado in Boulder and has written numerous educational books on film and television.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
I Am Not a Number: Decoding the Prisoner:
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, Alex Cox takes an opposing view. While the series has surreal elements, he believes it provides the answers to all the questions which have confounded viewers: Who is Number 6? Who runs The Village? Who or what is Number 1? According to Cox, the key is to view the series in the order in which the episodes were made, not in the order of the UK or US television screenings. In this book he does exactly that and provides an entirely original and controversial explanation for what is perhaps the best and certainly the most perplexing TV series of all time.
Introduction to Film: A Director’s Perspective:
Emerging filmmakers need to know the basics of their art form: the language of the camera and lenses, the different crew roles, the formats and the aspect ratios. They also need to know some bare-bones theory: what an auteur is, what montage is and what genres are. But, even more urgently, young filmmakers need answers to their questions: What lens was used? How did they do that effect? Who paid for that picture? How did they get it past the censor? Most important, Alex Cox believes that all filmmakers require serious grounding in film. You cannot be a great artist if you aren’t versed in great art. And this doesn’t just apply to the cinema. This book is for aspiring filmmakers, but also for students and for people generally interested in grounding themselves in this particular art form, from a filmmaker’s perspective.
Ten Thousand Ways to Die: A Director’s Take on the Italian Western:
Alex Cox wrote a book with the same title around decades ago; a thesis compiled while studying at UCLA. It was never published, something of a blessing according to the author. So, despite appropriating the title, this new work is a completely different piece and approaches the genre in a very different way. The theory behind his chronological method was that by following the films year by year a pattern of development might become more obvious. The journey from American style clones through more clearly European perspectives and finally open parody is a story followed far easier when we take the journey in the order the films were actually made. To this end Cox actually re-watched a couple of hundred spaghetti westerns in chronological order and found himself focusing naturally on the careers of two of the most influential directors in the genre, Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci. Their divergent personalities and respective careers become a central core of the book and, in particular, Corbucci’s bitter experience and wildly varying output becomes symptomatic of the genre as a whole.
The President and the Provocateur: The Parallel Lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald:
President John F. Kennedy is said to have been murdered by a lone crazed gunman in a Dallas motorcade in 1963. The accused killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was also murdered under mysterious circumstances just a couple days later. Alex Cox, like most of the American and British public, does not buy into the moth-eaten establishment tale about the regicide. The President and the Provocateur is not the usual conspiracy volume and is structured almost like the film Rashomon, including varying views of the story with different fonts and sizes. It is an informed meditation on the conspiratorial tale and an imaginative rendering of the parallel structures of the lives of Kennedy and Oswald.
X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker:
Filmmaker Alex Cox’s thoughtful autobiography examines his craft and influences, as well as providing his insights into many of his favorite films. Sometimes called a radical, Cox is a quintessential auteur, as well as an internationally focused, insightful critic and writer whose passion for film has gripped him since childhood. In addition to being a captivating look into Cox’s process, this book also encourages and instructs would-be independent filmmakers, guiding the next generation of film pioneers through the arduous journey of creation. Cox weaves his own confessions with his notes to the new guard, including thoughts on new forms of digital distribution and his radical views on intellectual property. The result is a readable, startling treatise on both the film innovations of today and the thrilling potential of future filmmaking.
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