Homemade Hollywood - by Clive Young (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Homemade Hollywood Fans Behind the Camera is a comprehensive book about fan films, covering the secret history of the burgeoning movement. Itexploresfan 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b> </b><br/><br/><b>Fan Films: Fun, free and totally illegal!</b> <br/><br/><br/><br/>Who would swing off a six-story building for a homemade<br/>Spider-Man movie? Why would newlyweds spend $20,000 on a Star Wars film from<br/>which they can never profit? How did three nobodies blow Steven Spielberg's<br/>mind with an Indiana Jones flick they made as teens in the Eighties? <br/><br/><br/><br/>They're all part of the Fan Film revolution--an underground<br/>movement where backyard filmmakers are breaking the law to create unauthorized<br/>movies starring Batman, James Bond, Captain Kirk, Harry Potter and other<br/>classic characters. Regular people are making movies that the fans want to<br/>see--and which copyrights and common sense would never allow. <br/><br/><br/><br/><i>Homemade </i>Hollywood<i>: <br/>Fans Behind The Camera </i>traces the fan film movement from the 1920s, when con<br/>men made fake Little Rascals movies, to the internet video sensations of today.<br/>Crossing the divides from a pop culture history of truly outlaw cinema, to an<br/>exploration of Hollywood's<br/>changing attitude towards its audience, <i>Homemade Hollywood</i> uncovers the<br/>innovations and controversies surrounding these secret films and reveals how<br/>they're changing today's media. <br/><br/><br/><br/>Get insights from the fan filmmakers themselves as well as<br/>Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn, director Eli Roth (<i>Hostel</i>, <i>Cabin Fever</i>), <br/>punk rock icon Tommy Ramone, authors Henry Jenkins (<i>Convergence Culture</i>), Don<br/>Glut (<i>The Empire Strikes Back</i>), Andrea Richards (<i>Girl Director</i>) and others. A<br/>foreword from Chris Gore, founder of <i>Film Threat</i> and movie expert on G4TV's<br/>Attack of the Show, sets the ton<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"HOMEMADE HOLLYWOOD: FANS BEHIND THE CAMERA traces an underground 'fan film' movement from the 1920s to YouTube modern times, covering everything from the indie filmmaking industry to how big media changes attitudes and content of movies themselves. Any movie fan interested on more than a general level will find this a lively fascinating coverage of alternative movie media." -James A. Cox, California Bookwatch--Sanford Lakoff<br><br>"Part celebration, part scholarly history, Clive Young's homage to fan-made flicks is a passionate, persuasive exercise in balance" Total Film, 1 June 2009--Sanford Lakoff<br><br>"Young's acoount is intelligent and partisan" 5 June 2009--Sanford Lakoff "Times Literary Supplement "<br><br>Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name: "Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow: yes; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: #0400;} "Clive Young's book does a great job putting together the unknown history of fan films...I never got to make a fan film, but after reading Homemade Hollywood, I wish I had."-RetroThing.com<br><br>"Young's riveting volume, illustrated with stills and behind-the-scenes photographs, also covers what these films have to say about our relationship to our favorite characters and Hollywood's gradual, wary acceptance of their existence." -SciFi Magazine<br><br>"Young's acoount is intelligent and partisan"5 June 2009--, "Times Literary Supplement "<br><br>Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4/* Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name: "Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow: yes;mso-style-parent: "";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt;mso-pagination: widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language: #0400;mso-fareast-language: #0400;mso-bidi-language: #0400;}"Clive Young's book does a great job putting togetherthe unknown history of fan films...I never got to make a fan film, but afterreading Homemade Hollywood, I wish I had."-RetroThing.com<br><br>Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4st1\: *{behavior: url(#ieooui) }! /* Style Definitions */p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal{mso-style-parent: "";margin:0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;mso-pagination: widow-orphan;font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";}a: link, span.MsoHyperlink{color: blue;text-decoration: underline;text-underline: single;}a: visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed{color: purple;text-decoration: underline;text-underline: single;}@page Section1{size:8.5in 11.0in;margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;mso-header-margin: .5in;mso-footer-margin: .5in;mso-paper-source:0;}div.Section1{page: Section1;} >/* Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name: "Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow: yes;mso-style-parent: "";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt;mso-pagination: widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Ti<br><br>Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4! /* Style Definitions */p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal{mso-style-parent: "";margin:0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;mso-pagination: widow-orphan;font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";}a: link, span.MsoHyperlink{color: blue;text-decoration: underline;text-underline: single;}a: visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed{color: purple;text-decoration: underline;text-underline: single;}@page Section1{size:8.5in 11.0in;margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;mso-header-margin: .5in;mso-footer-margin: .5in;mso-paper-source:0;}div.Section1{page: Section1;} >/* Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name: "Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow: yes;mso-style-parent: "";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt;mso-pagination: widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language<br><br>"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<br><br>"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<br><br>"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<br><br>"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<br><br>"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<br><br>"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<br><br>Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4!--/* Style Definitions */p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal{mso-style-parent: "";margin:0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;mso-pagination: widow-orphan;font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";}a: link, span.MsoHyperlink{color: blue;text-decoration: underline;text-underline: single;}a: visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed{color: purple;text-decoration: underline;text-underline: single;}@page Section1{size:8.5in 11.0in;margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;mso-header-margin: .5in;mso-footer-margin: .5in;mso-paper-source:0;}div.Section1{page: Section1;} "/* Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name: "Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow: yes;mso-style-parent: "";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt;mso-pagination: widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-langua<br><br>Review in in Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden's third largest morning newspaper.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Clive Young is an author and lecturer covering the crossroads between high technology and popular culture. He has been interviewed by the London Times, Los Angeles Times and other outlets as an expert on the subject, and ran "Mos Eisley Multiplex," the first website devoted to fan films, from 1998-2000; during that time, USA Today named it a "Hot Site of the Day." He will appear in the upcoming documentary, Star Wars Fans, discussing the cultural consequences of fan productions, and has lectured on the topic at universities, libraries and conventions. As the author of Crank It Up [Backbeat Books, 2004], Young profiled 72 of the world's top rock concert roadies about their work. The book received strong reviews from mainstream magazines like Billboard and Hit Parader, as well as specialist press. Young covers the music industry as both the senior and web editors of Pro Sound News, and has also written for MTV, VH1, American Songwriter, Music Business International, Wine Enthusiast and numerous other outlets. More information on Young can be found at his website, www.cliveyoung.com.
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