How the 1970s Remade Hollywood

How the 1970s remade Hollywood

“The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema,” by Paul Fischer. Publisher: Celadon. 480 pages. $32.

Coppola, Lucas and Spielberg Rewrote Hollywood’s Rules in the Chaotic 70s. Who’s Doing That Now?

A new generation of filmmakers if poised to rewrite the rules of cinema, as Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg did in the 1970s.

Were the ’90s Really the Last “Golden Age” for American Cinema — and If Not, Who Comes Next?

A THR piece, written by Paul Fischer, and titled “Coppola, Lucas and Spielberg Rewrote Hollywood’s Rules in the Chaotic 70s. Who’s Doing That Now?,” wonders which current filmmaker represents the future of cinema? Fischer compares the 1970s—an era he claims “birthed the last golden age of cinema”—to the 2020s, which he characterizes as a period marked by “bloody conflict abroad” and “corruption in politics,” conditions he argues could give rise …

How Coppola, Lucas, and Spielberg Changed Hollywood Forever

All photos courtesy of Celadon Books. How does one begin to tell the story of Hollywood in the 1970s, when a then-fledgling movie industry was rescued from irrelevance by the arrival of filmmakers who saw themselves not merely as vessels for movie studios but as bona fide artists in their own right? You might start with Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg, the subjects of the author Paul Fischer’s vibrant, tantalizing, and c…