Audience+HBO

back to Level 2 Audience active HBO began producing films in 1983 with their HBO Pictures banner; their first film, //[|The Terry Fox Story]//, was also the first feature film produced expressly for pay television. Another film production company, HBO Showcase (later HBO NYC) was folded into HBO Pictures to produce the current company HBO Films. HBO Films productions are generally regarded to be high-quality and groundbreaking productions; the films produced by the company have garnered hundreds of [|Emmy] and [|Golden Globe] awards; HBO Films productions have won the award for the Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Made for Television Movie" every year from 1993 to 2002, except 2000. //[|Elephant]//is the first film produced by HBO Films to win the [|Palme d'Or] at the [|Cannes Film Festival]. Example no 1.
 * HBO Films ** is a division of the [|cable television] [|network] [|HBO] that produces [|feature films] and [|miniseries] . While much of HBO Films' output is created directly for the television market, such as the film // [|Witness Protection] // and the mini-series // [|Band of Brothers] // and // [|Angels in America] //, it has also branched into theatrical distribution with such critically acclaimed films as // [|Elephant] // and // [|American Splendor] // . These theatrical releases are usually handled by [|Picturehouse] , a joint venture between HBO Films and [|New Line Cinema] ; both are owned by [|Time Warner].

Grey Gardens. The subject. Eddie Bouviere. And a study of transmedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmedia_storytelling

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758751/ Audience HBO Case study 1. The portrayal of Eddie Bouviere in a recent HBO movie, //**Grey Gardens**//, is a Primetime Emmy Award winning HBO film about the lives of Edith Bouvier Beale/"Little Edie". It is a specifically American film.

 **//Gray Gardens//** Won at the Golden Globe 2010. It had gained a strong Fandom during 2007 - 2009 with a range of media projects addressing an early documentary film made in 1975 about a mother daughter relationship in the Hamptons, USA. College has the original Documentary and a supplementary documentary.  In the HBO film, Drew Barrymore plays the lead role. Director Michael Sucsy. Sucsy Albert Maysle as a source for the idea. This life story is set in The Hamptons and derived out of many Little Eddie's diaries and letters. Eddie had fashion influence. She also has had iconclastic power in recent culture

Production: The entire film was shot in Ontario,Canada, with a few exceptions. Post production was done in New York and Los Angeles. The DVD commentary was done in the same studio as where the Maysles mixed the original documentary See: Eddie Bouvier (cousin to Jackie Kennedy Onassis )

The film, Grey Garden was a popular USA film. **Fandoms are a strong example of transmedia in culture. It has shifted from a Documentary from in the 1970's to a Broadway Musical in the 1990's to, now, an HBO film. Grey Gardens won the EMMY in 2009. The Laramie Project won in 2002.Truman won in 1996. Pirates of Silicon Valley in 1999. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant won with Extras: The Extras Special Series Finale on 2008.**. What is a FANDOM? It may be discrete or large


 * Example 1**. Grey Gardens. An adult fandom. Perhaps a local fandom from New York state, or followers of the Onassis connection, or followers of mother daughter relations in this social class.

See Grey Gardens. the Musical. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Gardens_(musical)