American Film, Volume V, Number 6
Subtitle: April 1980
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: April 1980
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 72
Copyright date: 1980
Description: $1.75 cover price. Cover photo of Richard Chamberlain as Blackthorne in the NBC mini-series "Shogun;" reverse side features a color ad for "Nijinksky." Sidney Poitier contributes an article. The page count drops to 72.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; label: Letters
pagenum: 6; label: Lehman at Large: Shop Talk
pagenum: 8
title: What's left to write about?; label: About Television:Uncle Miltie's money talk
pagenum: 10
title: As a television presenter, Milton Friedman has the gift to bring home the concept without the term.; label: Explorations: Low tech, high art.
pagenum: 13
title: At the end of the seventies, Super-8 became the cutting edge of independent filmmaking. Most of the young filmmakers who have emerged over the last few years have been working in Super-8; label: Point of View: Is television unfair to labor?
pagenum: 15
title: From the low-budget "Life of Riley" to the well-financed "Skag," television has always had uneasy labor relations with the American workingman.; label: Shogun: Culture Clash in the Orient
pagenum: 18
title: The twain met when NBC filmed its 12-hour blockbuster in Japan. Still, East is East and West is West...; label: Walking the Hollywood Color Line by Sidney Poitier
pagenum: 24
title: The dilemma of the black superstar. With an Oscar and a string of hits behind him, America's leading black actor found himself caught between the white establishment and the black community.; label: Advertisement
pagenum: 29
title: The Magnetic Video Library's "An Interview with Dustin Hoffman: The Making Moments of Kramer vs Kramer."; label: The Importance of Being Dan Talbot
pagenum: 30
title: Can one man change the foreign film scene in this country? Theater owner and film distributor Talbot has introduced Bertolucci, Herzog, Fassbinder, Sembene, and others. Is that enough of an answer?; label: Advertisement
pagenum: 35
title: Schick Sunn Classic Productions (glossy 4-page centerfold); label: Dialogue on Film: Charles Champlin
pagenum: 39
title: Hollywood's most influential film critic talks about the art of criticism, the responsibilities of the working critic, changes in movies and audiences, and what it's like reviewing films in the film capital.; label: Fame: An Explosion of Young Talent
pagenum: 48
title: The film about the rigors of attending New York's performing arts high school.; label: Norma Rae's Big Daddy
pagenum: 52
title: Some filmmakers get taken for granted. At a time when remarkably young directors establish themselves as powers in the industry on the basis of three pictures, or two, or maybe even one, there remains a few old hands who have managed to amass lists of credits that seem to go on forever and that include some of Hollywood's best works. Martin Ritt, the director behind the big performances, is one of these.; label: Focus on Education: Tonight's Assignment, Watch Television
pagenum: 59
title: Who would have read "Rich Man, Poor Man" if it hadn't been televised? And what made teeming editions of "I, Claudius" possible?; label: Books
pagenum: 62
title: Reviews.; title: "Show People: Profiles in Entertainment" by Kenneth Tynan.; title: "Heyday" by Dore Schary; label: AFI News
pagenum: 69; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 72