About the Author

Alex Cox is a writer, film director, actor and producer. He has directed a dozen features, and written about movies for The Guardian, Film Comment, Kinema Jumpo, and The New York Times. Among his films are Repo Man, Walker, Highway Patrolman, and Revengers Tragedy. He is currently working on a documentary, Scene Missing, and a book about the parallel lives of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald -- The President and the Provocateur.