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Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind the Camera Paperback – Illustrated, September 15, 2008

by Clive Young (Author), Chris Gore (Foreword)
4.6 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

Fan Films: Fun, free and totally illegal!



Who would swing off a six-story building for a homemade
Spider-Man movie? Why would newlyweds spend $20,000 on a Star Wars film from
which they can never profit? How did three nobodies blow Steven Spielberg's
mind with an Indiana Jones flick they made as teens in the Eighties?



They're all part of the Fan Film revolution--an underground
movement where backyard filmmakers are breaking the law to create unauthorized
movies starring Batman, James Bond, Captain Kirk, Harry Potter and other
classic characters. Regular people are making movies that the fans want to
see--and which copyrights and common sense would never allow.



Homemade Hollywood:
Fans Behind The Camera traces the fan film movement from the 1920s, when con
men made fake Little Rascals movies, to the internet video sensations of today.
Crossing the divides from a pop culture history of truly outlaw cinema, to an
exploration of Hollywood's
changing attitude towards its audience, Homemade Hollywood uncovers the
innovations and controversies surrounding these secret films and reveals how
they're changing today's media.



Get insights from the fan filmmakers themselves as well as
Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn, director Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever),
punk rock icon Tommy Ramone, authors Henry Jenkins (Convergence Culture), Don
Glut (The Empire Strikes Back), Andrea Richards (Girl Director) and others. A
foreword from Chris Gore, founder of Film Threat and movie expert on G4TV's
Attack of the Show, sets the tone.

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    297 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Continuum
  4. Publication date
    September 15, 2008
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.65 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0826429238
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0826429230
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"Terrific.... The cool, revealing tales...make Clive Young's book, Homemade Hollywood, an absolute pleasure to read. If you're interested in fan movies, or the subterranean world of Hollywood, it's a must-read." --Annalee Newitz, io9.Com

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Continuum
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 15, 2008
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 297 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0826429238
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0826429230
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.65 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

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  • G Cruz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Homespun
    Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2012
    Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
    This is a super book on fan made films and the author oozes with love for the topic and hit a home run with the work. Filled with history and great facts and makes a stellar read on the topic if your interested read this.
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  • MJ Stewart
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book! Highly recommend this one if you love ...
    Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2016
    Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
    Great book! Highly recommend this one if you love Hollywood, and especially if you've ever dreamed of making your own fan film! YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
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  • Steven W. Hill
    3.0 out of 5 stars The token "but he completely ignores..." review
    Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2011
    Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
    I fully realise this review is going to be received negatively by most of you who are reading it, and for that I apologise in advance, but I need to put it out there nonetheless, even if it does sound like a whine about being ignored... :)

    Yes, this book is well researched and goes into far greater depth, and far more distant history than one might expect on such a topic, nicely laying the groundwork for the main course, picking up real steam in the 1990s. Focusing greatly on Star Wars, Star Trek and Indiana Jones fan films becomes the book's biggest problem for me personally. As a maker of Doctor Who fan films since the mid-1980s, I am simply dismayed that there's an enormous gap in the book. The thing is, the book does its job so well when talking about what it *does* cover that it's almost unnoticeable, unless looking for it (like I did), that the gap exists. But think about this for a moment - why is there (almost) nothing covered in the 1980s? Not just a whole decade, but THE decade that camcorders hit the mainstream and people were just discovering their potential? The (only?) decade that cable access programming actually welcomed fan films? There are actually *hundreds* of Doctor Who fan films, exploding in popularity in the mid-1980s at the same time the show did (in America). There isn't a single mention of Doctor Who or its fan films in the book's index, and, like I said, the 1980s are pretty much completely passed over as if nobody was making any fan films then. Boy, do I refute that!

    Perhaps if the author ever makes a revised edition, he can take a bit of time to discover that which he has completely missed the first time around - a heavily active fan film making community in the latter half of the 1980s, centered around Doctor Who rather than around Star Wars, Star Trek or the others. As it stands now, this really is a great book, albeit with a huge gap where there shouldn't be a gap at all.
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  • Bernard Finnigan
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Fantastic Journey
    Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2020
    Format: Hardcover
    This is a marvelous discovery of a facet of fandom too often ignored. There are hundreds of Star Wars books alone (and far too many 'fans') which are completely oblivious to the topic. Fanfilms have been a powerful undercurrent for a long time and here we finally get the definitive history we deserve.
    This is special to my heart as I was hip-deep in fanfilms for a while myself, filming/editing/uploading movies about Quantum Leap and Dresden Files among many others. The time and effort cannot be ignored, all for the prize of having a work of art you can enjoy for the rest of your life.
    THIS is the fandom book you have to read to understand the phenomenon. Making-of books and interviews with alleged social media stars are usually just retreads of each other and miss far too much of the story. The beating heart of SW or Marvel or whatever is not any celebrity, its the fans who have the drive and determination to create and contribute and keep the fire alive. This is their story.
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  • Adam Bertocci
    5.0 out of 5 stars "You have taken your first step into a larger world."
    Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2008
    Format: Paperback
    As a fan and creator of "Star Wars" fan films, this book's greatest strength also represents its greatest failing. "Star Wars" people are, and not just with regard to fan filmmaking, the 800-pound gorilla of movie buffs; their fan films have received the most scholarly and media coverage so far.

    Yet this book takes a full sixty pages before we first visit that galaxy ("Hardware Wars") and the seminal "Troops" does not rear its ugly head until page 138.

    This book presents a case of looking at that famous photo of Earth among space, and realizing that this world of ours we thought was so big actually connects to even bigger things, new and exciting mysteries and possibilities once obscured by a veil, now as plain and clear as anything you could ask to see. This is a book of history that goes back to before we were putting the movies we made with DV cameras on the Internet, a book of greater breadth than a galaxy far, far away.

    Yet there is still room out there in the publishing world for the definitive history of "Star Wars" fan films. As Whitman might have noted, we are large, we contain multitudes. Think of every "Star Wars" project which could have made for a fascinating chapter all by itself yet didn't even get a mention, and you will be shaking your fist at the book for the unpardonable sin of not being eight hundred pages long.

    Always leave 'em wanting more, indeed.

    "Homemade Hollywood" fits our saber-swinging and incompetent performances into wider social contexts while staying comfortably within the realm of cinema. It resists the temptation to overwiden its stance, to take us into "Textual Poachers" territory and trace what we do into the whole history of art. Our guide trusts us to make those connections for ourselves; this is a book about and for moviemakers, treating the art form of cinema as just fine enough to write a book on, thank you, and it fills a previously unexplored canvas with color and depth.

    As a bonus, although he doesn't out-and-out state it, Clive Young gives us a history not only of fan films but of amateur filmmaking in general. As a series of case studies of the make-your-own-movie model, the text walks us through a survey of what the amateur auteur had available to him from the days of Super 8 film to the After Effects era.

    As a proper and serious filmmaker, then, I can promise you that this book belongs on my shelf by Sidney Lumet's "Making Movies", by Syd Field and Robert McKee and Rick Schmidt and all those other standards that filmmakers own. It is at once a work of serious scholarship and enjoyable journalism that shines a light on a subject few else would think to touch, and it does so in a way that not only conveys its love of these movies but inspires and rekindles that love in others.
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  • MR MARCUS HESLOP
    5.0 out of 5 stars Superb!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 24, 2018
    Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
    One of the best books about films I have. I bought this back in 2009 but feel inspired to write a review after watching the documentary Fanachy which the author appears in. A really affectionate book about the love and obsession that can come from living the movies.
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