Continuum Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind the Camera

Review "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 LakoffNormal 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"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"Clive Youn 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 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"HOMEMADE HOLLYWOOD: FANS BEHIND THE CAMERAtraces an underground 'fan film' movement from the 1920s to YouTubemodern times, covering everything from the indie filmmaking industry tohow big media changes attitudes and content of movies themselves. Anymovie fan interested on more than a general level will find this alively fascinating coverage of alternative movie media." -James A. Cox, California Bookwatch--,"Overall, "Homemade Hollywood" is an excellent primer for academics new to the fireld of fanthopology, 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"Some have called the fan-film phenomenon a "movement," but that word suggests an immediacy not borne out of by historical facts. It's bigger, wider than a movement; it's a culture. Homemade Hollywood is a fascinating chrnocle of much of how that culture came to be." -Michael E. Ross, PopMatters.com"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 MagazineNormal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4!--/* 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