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Publication Date: 5 November 2026
Format: Paperback
Extent: 512 pp
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ISBN: 9780857306395
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Publication Date:1 January 1970
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DEAD SOULS
The Screenplay
Alex Cox, Gianni Garko, Nikolai Gogol
An Ace Double paperback featuring the screenplay to Alex Cox's 'last' film - Dead Souls - plus the original Nikolai Gogol text.
Dead Souls, directed by and starring Alex Cox, is a surreal, lean, meditative, low-budget Spaghetti Western adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's classic novel, transposed to the 19th-century American West, that feels both literary and rebellious.
The film follows Strindler (Alex Cox), a conniving preacher buying up names of deceased Mexicans, blending political satire on greed and corruption with meta-humour, stop-motion, and musical numbers.
The story mirrors Gogol's original novel, set in a dusty, morally bankrupt frontier town where Strindler travels, collecting the names of 'dead souls' to gain power and money.
ACE DOUBLES - TWO BOOKS IN ONE
Read the book from one cover, then flip it round and read from the other!
LATEST PRESS REVIEWS FOR Dead Souls
new ' A diverting and watchable love letter to the spaghetti west of the movies, and a satirical thorn in the flesh of Trumpian politics.'
- Guardian [read the full review]
MORE PRESS REVIEWS FOR Dead Souls
'Dead Souls makes for a riotous swan song'
- New York Times
'An old anarchist's nostalgic fantasia, blending Western themes in thewake of contemporary politics that he can't quite rationalize'
- National Review
'Ragged, witty and politically sharpened'
- Arts Fuse
'an offbeat and proudly political riff on the spaghetti Westerns of old that serves as an inspired summation of the themes and attitudes that have driven his work throughout the years'
- Peter Sobczynski, rogerebert.com
' funny in that offbeat, purely Cox kind of way'
- Bobby LePire, filmthreat.com
'a brilliant adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 absurdist Russian classic'
- Jenny Paola Ortega Castillo, Film International
AUTHOR LINKS
Kamera Books/Creative Essentials Titles by Alex Cox
