Main description:
Phil Hall helps film students and enthusiasts uncover the hidden cinema that Hollywood wont acknowledge. Each chapter focuses on a particular genre within the underground sub-culture, offering historic development and insight from underground film experts (filmmakers, distributors, programmers and critics) on the particular highs and lows of the genre. An original interview with a well-known figure of each sub-culture is also included, and each chapter ends with a Required Viewing section containing brief reviews of the essential classics (and anti-classics, in some cases) of the genre.
- Foreword written by Chris Gore, editor of www.filmthreat.com
- Interviews with underground filmmakers such as Antero Alli; Jonathan Friedman; and John T. Ryan
- 'Required viewing' at the end of each chapter helps readers find the very best of underground cinema
Review quote:
"Phil Hall is not only one of the most perceptive of the new movie critics out there, but his wide interests give him a welcome authority whether he's reviewing the latest low-budget DV feature or Hollywood's latest FX blockbuster. His appreciation of good cinema permeates all of his reviews.
John Farrell, author of "Digital Movies with Quicktime Pro" and filmmaker ("Richard the Second," "Everyman")
Table of contents:
Foreword; Introduction; The Artistic Underground; Frantic Antics; Real Life/Reel Life; Rod Serling's Children; The Digital Underground; From Collector to Collector; Festivals of Their Own; When Underground Films Surface
Phil Hall helps film students and enthusiasts uncover the hidden cinema that Hollywood wont acknowledge. Each chapter focuses on a particular genre within the underground sub-culture, offering historic development and insight from underground film experts (filmmakers, distributors, programmers and critics) on the particular highs and lows of the genre. An original interview with a well-known figure of each sub-culture is also included, and each chapter ends with a Required Viewing section containing brief reviews of the essential classics (and anti-classics, in some cases) of the genre.
- Foreword written by Chris Gore, editor of www.filmthreat.com
- Interviews with underground filmmakers such as Antero Alli; Jonathan Friedman; and John T. Ryan
- 'Required viewing' at the end of each chapter helps readers find the very best of underground cinema
Review quote:
"Phil Hall is not only one of the most perceptive of the new movie critics out there, but his wide interests give him a welcome authority whether he's reviewing the latest low-budget DV feature or Hollywood's latest FX blockbuster. His appreciation of good cinema permeates all of his reviews.
John Farrell, author of "Digital Movies with Quicktime Pro" and filmmaker ("Richard the Second," "Everyman")
Table of contents:
Foreword; Introduction; The Artistic Underground; Frantic Antics; Real Life/Reel Life; Rod Serling's Children; The Digital Underground; From Collector to Collector; Festivals of Their Own; When Underground Films Surface