Pirate Cinema
, by Doctorow, CoryNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780765329080 | 0765329085
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/2/2012
Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with making movies on his computer by reassembling footage from popular films he downloads from the net. In the dystopian near-future Britain where Trent is growing up, this is more illegal than ever; the punishment for being caught three times is that your entire household's access to the internet is cut off for a year, with no appeal.Trent's too clever for that to happen. Except it does, and nearly destroys his family. Shamed and shattered, Trent runs away to London, where he slowly learns the ways of staying alive on the streets. This brings him in touch with a demimonde of artists and activists who are fighting a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless internet creativity, making felons of millions of British citizens at a stroke. Things look bad. Parliament is in the power of a few wealthy media conglomerates. But the powers-that-be haven't entirely reckoned with the power of a gripping movie to change people's minds... .