Homemade Hollywood

<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 $20000 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 tone.