American Film, Volume 1, Number 6
Subtitle: April 1976
Series: The Journal of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: April 1976
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 100
Copyright date: 1976
Description: Previous issues were stapled, this issue has a glued spine. Bob Harmon caricatures of various film celebrities adorn the cover. $1.50 cover price.
Table of contents: title: William Wyler Tribute
label: Special Section; label: The Test of Time: William Wyler
pagenum: 4; label: A Life in Film
pagenum: 7; label: The Ben-Hur Journal
pagenum: 28
title: What happens when an actor is tapped to play the role of a lifetime while working with a great diretor in a movie of epic proportions? These excerpts from the journals kept by Charlton Heston tell the "inside" story.; label: Dialogue on Film: William Wyler
pagenum: 37
title: Charlton Heston joins the hard-of-hearing director, who discusses the transition from films to talkies, as well as movies like "The Best Years of Our Lives," "Memphis Belle," and others.; label: Letters
pagenum: 53; label: McMurtry on the Movies
pagenum: 54
title: The Fun of It All; label: Political Filmmaking: The Selling of the Candidates
pagenum: 57
title: With Camera and Videotape; label: Raymond Chandler and Hollywood
pagenum: 62
title: The relationship was fruitful but uncomfortable for both. Part I of II.; label: The Theater of News, Part II
pagenum: 70
title: When American television viewers get the serious national news through John Cancellor or Harry Reasoner, most are getting it for the first time...; label: Endgame
pagenum: 74
title: In Search of the Missing Final Fadeout; label: The Underground Man
pagenum: 78
title: Kenneth Anger's Magic Quest; label: Focus on Education
pagenum: 84
title: Snap Course?; label: Member News
pagenum: 87; label: Explorations
pagenum: 88
title: I've Made the Film, Now What Do I Do With It?; title: Reviews.
label: Books; label: Depression's Everyman: On James Cagney
pagenum: 92
title: "Cagney: The Actor as Auteur" by Patrick McGilligan, and "Cagney by Cagney."; title: "Screwball: The Life of Carole Lombard" by Larry Swindell
label: The Beautiful Screwball; label: Values and Biases
pagenum: 94
title: "Reeling" by Pauline Kael; label: The Western Myth: On the Lonesome Hero
pagenum: 96
title: "Sixguns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western" by Will Wright; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 99