Steven Spielberg: The Unauthorised Biography

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HarperCollins, 1996 - 457 pages
John Baxter charts Speilberg's career from his boyhood 8mm home movies to the epic sweep of Schlindler's List and beyond. He tells the story from his unhappy adolescence on the fringes of American society to his present unrivalled position of power. Spielberg's story is also the story of modern Hollywood and of the Movie Brat generatin of directors - Martin Scorsese, Frnacis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, John Millius and Brian de Palma.

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The Sandcastle
1
The Man who Fell to Earth
5
The Boy Who Swallowed a Transistor
15
Copyright

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John Baxter is a film critic, novelist, biographer and broadcaster, whose books on the cinema include 'The Hollywood Exiles', 'The Cinema of John Ford', and highly praised biographies of Ken Russell, Fellini, Bunuel, 'Steven Spielberg' and 'Stanley Kubrick'. His biography of 'Woody Allen' was published by HarperCollins in November 1998.

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