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.