This book looks at the film work of Francis Ford Coppola, with subsidiary interest in the work of Sofia Coppola and a chapter on the work of other members of the Coppola family. Author Vincent LoBrutto is an experienced and lauded film journalist; author Harriet R. Morrison is primarily interested in women in the workplace. Since Francis Ford Coppola is considered a major American director and his daughter Sofia has a more limited filmography to date, it would be easy to see the book's subject as a less-skilled woman riding on the coattails of a more-skilled man. The authors gracefully avoid this problem by organizing the book as a look at the history of a film family. Francis Ford dominates the book as the establisher of the family business and the senior member whose long and illustrious history of films is documented. Sofia is the up-and-coming next generation director. In addition to analysis of both directors' films and their circumstances of production, the book looks at what it means (and doesn't mean) for individual creative artists to be part of a family tradition. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)