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Book that mentions fanedits...

hebrides

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While doing some research for my dissertation (for a chapter on a student-made, feature-length, modern adaptation of Othello), I ran across a book called Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind the Camera by Clive Young (New York: Continuum, 2008 ).

It's a fascinating book about fan films, tracing their history back at least as far as a town that (perhaps knowingly) participated in the creation of a fake Our Gang movie made by two con men in 1926, right up through more modern works like the Pink Five films, Troops, Sandy Collora's Batman: Dead End and World's Finest, and Star Trek New Voyages/Star Trek Phase II (which has its obvious fanedit connection through Jack Marshall).

Towards the end of the book, on page 259, Young also mentions fanedits, describing them as a distinct form of fan film. Judging from the particular edits he cites, it seems likely that he's spent at least some time on fanedit.org (and perhaps he's here now?).

He references (but does not refer to by name) Jack Marshall's Star Trek Phase II: In Thy Image, killbillme's Cast Away Remixed by Jorge, boon's 13 to 30 Extraflirty, and ADigitalMan's Love Actually: Bloated and Flatulent Extended Edition. He also refers to "numerous versions of The Phantom Menace that hack out the dreaded Jar-Jar Binks."

So take a bow, guys; you've crossed over into print! :clap2::clap2::clap2::clap2::clap2:
 

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Nice find, hebrides! I'm sure boon will be happy for Extra Flirty being the fanedit of his that shows up in the book.

Can you transcribe the rest?
 

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Cool! Great find! I was researching academic writing on fanedits last winter for a possible phd project (that never came to fruition, unfortunately), but I somehow never found this book. I will read it for sure.
 

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Wow, awesome. I'd love to read the full book :)
 

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thats really awesome! Thanks for the heads up hebrides. I want to check out this book.
 

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I have only just seen this thread. That is a fascinating find. Thanks, Hebrides!
 

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reave said:
Nice find, hebrides! I'm sure boon will be happy for Extra Flirty being the fanedit of his that shows up in the book.

Can you transcribe the rest?

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing about boon. The author clearly wanted to show the range of films that have received the fanedit treatment, but still...

Re transcribing: not much to transcribe, really; it's all in one short paragraph. My post about the paragraph is already longer than the paragraph itself. Still, maybe later, when I'm back where the book is.
 

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13 to 30 Extraflirty is doing great with whatever little attention it gets :)
Now we've made it to print media. Nice one. There will be more. Some edits are just too good to be ignored.
 

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I like flirty, though I don't think it deviates too much from the original film. An edit like 49 first dates however, that's the version that should have been released.
 
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