Overview

40 years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die...In the intervening period I have had the interesting experience of being a film director. So now, when I watch these films, I'm looking at them from a different perspective...10,000 Ways to Die is an entirely new book about an under-studied subject, the Spaghetti Western, from a director's point of view.' - Alex Cox'

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A standard reference for film buffs. -- Library Journal An exceptionally well-informed and accessible primer on the subject. --Powells.com

An exceptionally well-informed and accessible primer on the subject. --Powells.com

An exceptionally well-informed and accessible primer on the subject. --Powells.com A standard reference for film buffs. --Library Journal

Author Information

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.

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