Alex Cox: Film Anarchist

by Steven Paul Davies

Few current British filmmakers have made their mark stateside as significantly as Alex Cox. Charting his development in cult favorites from "Repo Man "to "Sid and Nancy," this exhaustive study reveals Cox's punk energy and the obsessions that haunt his work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713486708
• ISBN13: 9780713486704
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: B.T. Batsford
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Major Work about a Major Artist

Alex Cox is one of the most interesting, entertaining and enlightening film-makers of our time. His Repo Man remains a major work, the first film to truly explore the hardcore punk underground and without a doubt the best film Emilio Estevez ever did. While that film and Sid & Nancy remain Cox's best known works, his many other films are all worthy of critical inspection and this book delivers. Stephen Davies obviously knows his subject, picking up the director's concerns about Central and South American politics, the military industrial complex and other burning issues. And we finally get to hear Cox's side of the controversy surrounding the screenplay for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The book explores each of Cox's films in depth and presents the director's opinions on them as well as interesting back-stage stories from those who worked on the films. Dennis Hopper's foreward is a riot and worth the price of admission in itself. This book is an incredible piece of work that any fan of cutting edge film should own.