04948cam a22004818i 4500 in00024293337 DLC 20260427110611.0 ta 250804s2026 nyu b 001 0ceng 2025030207 9781250878724 (hardcover) 1250878721 (hardcover) 9781250878762 ebook DLC eng rda DLC DLC-MRC DLC eng pcc n-us--- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 PN 1998.3 F529l 2026 791.4302/33092 Fischer, Paul (Documentary film producer) 48027 The last kings of Hollywood : Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg--and the battle for the soul of American cinema / Paul Fischer. First edition. New York : Celadon Books, 2026. xv, 462 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Author's note Opening credits Introduction Part one: The outsiders. Twenty years later ; Beyond the rainbow ; Reality ends here ; The fear that thrills ; I lie to you all the time ; Do you wanna be a film director? ; Test-tube baby Part two: Young moguls. American zoetrope ; Black Thursday ; I believe in America ; The family business ; Unicorns ; America's Fellini ; Harrison Ford is not a good name for you ; Paranoia in North Beach ; From Sugarland to the vineyard ; You're gonna need a bigger boat ; Indiana Smith and Francis's apocalypse ; We could get another scream here ; Blockbuster ; Final-cut directors Part three: Company men. Those fuckers are crazy ; A walk in the dark ; This is the way the world ends ; Lucky sandcastles ; The horse may talk ; Do you want to live or die? ; Empire ; What if he got the dog? ; The dream ; High concept ; Like the old serials ; Shangri-Coppola ; The way of the Force ; The edge of the future Epilogue "The untold, intimate story of how three young visionaries--Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg--revolutionized American cinema, creating the most iconic films in history while risking everything, redefining friendship, and shaping Hollywood as we know it. In the summer of 1967, as the old Hollywood studio system was dying, an intense, uncompromising young film school graduate named George Lucas walked onto the Warner Bros backlot for his first day working as an assistant to another up-and-coming, largely-unknown filmmaker, a boisterous father of two called Francis Ford Coppola. At the exact same time, across town on the Universal Studios lot, a film-obsessed twenty-year-old from a peripatetic Jewish family, Steven Spielberg, longed to break free from his apprenticeship for the struggling studio and become a film director in his own right. Within a year, the three men would become friends. Spielberg, prioritizing security, got his seven-year contract directing television. Lucas and Coppola, hungry for independence, left Hollywood for San Francisco to found an alternative studio, American Zoetrope, and make films without answering to corporate capitalism. Based on extensive research and hundreds of original interviews with the inner circle of these Hollywood icons, The Last Kings of Hollywood tells the thrilling, dramatic inside story of how, over the next fifteen years, the three filmmakers rivalled and supported each other, fell out and reconciled, and struggled to reinvent popular American cinema. Along the way, Coppola directed The Godfather, then the highest-grossing film of all-time, until Spielberg surpassed it with Jaws -- whose record Lucas broke with Star Wars, which Spielberg surpassed again with E.T. By the early 1980s, they were the richest, best-known filmmakers in the world, each with an empire of their own. The Last Kings of Hollywood is an unprecedented chronicle of their rise, their dreams and demons, their triumphs and their failures -- intimate, extraordinary, and supremely entertaining"-- Provided by publisher. Coppola, Francis Ford, 1939- 69 Lucas, George, 1944- 22723 Spielberg, Steven, 1946- 30166 Motion picture producers and directors United States Biography Productores y directores de cine Biografías Estados Unidos 47165 http://id.loc.gov/resources/instances/in00024293337 http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/instanceOf http://id.loc.gov/resources/works/in00024293337 DLC bibframe2marc v2.10 20250804 DLC https://github.com/lcnetdev/bibframe2marc/releases/tag/v2.10 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 126870 126870 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2026-04-21 0 PN 1998.3 F529l 2026 00000198975 2026-04-21 12:57:00 1 2026-04-21 BK