Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind the Camera - Softcover

Clive Young

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826429238 ISBN 13: 9780826429230

Publisher: Continuum, 2008

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive book about fan films, covering the secret history of the burgeoning movement creating the cinema of tomorrow.Who would risk his life swinging six stories above the ground without a net, just for a homemade Spiderman movie? What would drive a young couple with a newborn baby to spend their life savings on a Star Wars film that has been seen by 4 million people - but from which they can never profit? And why would Steven Spielberg praise three nobodies for a home movie they made as teenagers in the Eighties? They're fan filmmakers, creating the cinema of tomorrow: quick, bite-sized movies, starring world-famous characters from Superman to Captain Kirk to Lara Croft. The flicks are fun, free and totally illegal.Now, thanks to Internet sites like YouTube and file sharing technologies like Bit Torrent, this controversial filmmaking movement is starting to rise to the surface. Likewise, Hollywood is taking notice: However, there is no comprehensive book about fan films. There's no tome devoted to the controversies surrounding this unlawful brand of filmmaking and how they're already changing today's media. There's no guide that tells you which movies to search out - and which ones to leave hidden under their rocks. "Homemade Hollywood: The Fan Film Phenomenon" can be that book.

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Review in in Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden's third largest morning newspaper.

"Clive Young manages to turn what could have been a lugubrious analysis into an interesting, chatty, and accessibly fun look at why fans do what we do." -JM Frey, hardcorenerdity.com

"Homemade Hollywood offers something for everyone. Whether you're looking from some inspiration for your own planned fan filmmaking adventure, have dreams of knocking on Hollywood's rear door, or you're seeking an insightful history lesson on this purely grassroots movement, this book delivers. It's a thoroughly entertaining and impassioned read that I think should be required reading for teenagers who claim there's absolutely nothing cool to do in their cities and towns. I'd much rather have my son creating cinematic web gems, than vegging out on video games. It's written for anyone with an obsession for the popular film medium, who might need a little emotional validation and credibility for their fervent pass-time, and will certainly be an enjoyable tome for everyone else."-FilmFetish.com

"Some have called the fan-film phenomenon a "movement," but that word suggests an immediacy not borne out by historical facts. It's bigger, wider than a movement; it's a culture. Homemade Hollywood is a fascinating chronicle of much of how that culture came to be." -Michael E. Ross, PopMatters.com

"Author Clive Young brings the rigors of a scholar and the inside-baseball of a fan to this well-researched and -written survey of how doing it yourself has both helped drive our enduring love of motion pictures and to articulate the populist roots of that obsession." -Michael E. Ross, PopMatters.com

"Overall, "Homemade Hollywood" is an excellent primer for academics new to the field of fanthropology, fan film makers who want to avoid their predecessor's pit falls and trace their successes, and copyright owning legal departments at a loss to decipher what to do about transformative works based on their properties. Young manages to convey not only the whys and wherefores of the hobby, but also the gleeful passion of the fans, the dedication, the heart, and the drive of the fan film maker out there with a camera not for fame, not for fortune, but as an act of utter love." -JM Frey, hardcorenerdity.com

"Homemade Hollywood works because it properly historicizes the fan-movie experience, and deepens our historical understanding of the hold that cinema has on the popular imagination." -Michael E. Ross, PopMatters.com

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About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0826429238
• ISBN 13: 9780826429230
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312