American Film, Volume VI, Number 10
Subtitle: September 1981
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: September 1981
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 88
Copyright date: 1981
Description: $2.00 cover price. Cover photo of Robert Duvall by Michael Ginsberg. 

First issue under editor Peter Biskind.  Ernest Lehman's and Martin Mayer's columns were dropped. The "Dialogue on Film" section is moved toward the front of the book (and is interrupted by ads) for the first time. A "Videography" section is added as well as "Trailers," a look at upcoming films.  The general look of the magazine changes with this issue, from the layout of the table of contents to the original artwork accompanying selected articles.
Table of contents: title: "Nighthawks" on MCA Videocassettes (inner cover)
label: Advertisements; title: Magnetic Video (2 pages): Academy Award winner Robert De Niro in Raging Bull.
pagenum: 6; label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 9
title: Inaugural column by editor Peter Biskind; label: Letters
pagenum: 10; label: Newsreel
pagenum: 13
title: "Inchon;" new Berolucci; humor from Hungary; popcorn; movie rent at home.; title: "Inchon"
label: Cult Movie; title: L.A. homeowners have prime real estate for movies.
label: House Call; title: Popcorn.
label: Box Office Gold; title: Peter Basco's "The Witness"
label: Pelikan's Progress; title: Bernardo Bertolucci's "Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man"
label: Terrorist Chic; label: Advertisement
pagenum: 16
title: MCA Videocassettes (Car Wash, Shenandoah, Earthquake, Airport, Midway, Silent Running); label: Dialogue on Film: Michael Fuchs
pagenum: 17
title: Senior Vice President in charge of programming at HBO.; label: Advertisements
pagenum: 21
title: Warner Home Video; title: The Bradford Exchange's Rhett Butler "Gone with the Wind" collector's plate.
pagenum: 23; title: Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) for Sony Beta Videotape.
pagenum: 24; title: Developments in programming and technology affecting the home viewer
label: The Video Scene; label: Ithaca's Magical Mystery Tour
pagenum: 25
title: America's oldest traveling video festival.; label: Bird-Watching
pagenum: 30
title: The future of satellite-to-home TV; label: Flashback: The Birth of the Talkies
pagenum: 34
title: Director Edward Bernds, who started out as a sound technician in 1928, recalls the awkward first days of a new era.; label: Robert Duvall: America's Hard-Boiled Olivier
pagenum: 38
title: He's been in some 30 films, nominated for an Oscar 3 times, yet big-time stardom has eluded him. With his latest movie, "The Confessions," Duvall hopes to change all that.; label: Advertisement
pagenum: 44
title: "Mommie Dearest" opens September 25th at a theatre near you.; label: "Make it Look Messy": Striking a New Note with 'Hill Street Blues'
pagenum: 45
title: Michael Kozoll and Steven Bochco have composed a series that has impressed critics more than viewers. Can a show that demands to be watched create audience demand?; label: After the Fall: Post-Cimino Hollywood
pagenum: 50
title: Rising costs and shrinking box office have made for hard times in Hollywood. When "Heaven's Gate" broke the industry's Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shall Not Go Over Budget, it looked like apocalypse now. Is it?; label: Advertisement
pagenum: 55
title: The Will Rogers Institute; title: The Independent Feature Movement
label: Special Report; label: Ordinary People, European Style
pagenum: 57
title: Or, how to spot an independent feature.; label: Getting It On
pagenum: 60
title: Or, how to make deals and influence exhibitors.; label: Cents and Sensibility
pagenum: 63
title: Or, funding without tears.; label: Who's Afraid of Big Bad Cable?
pagenum: 66
title: Not the networks, judging from the not-so-new fall shows. But then more people are watching than ever before. Moral: There's safety in numbers.; label: The New Season: A Preview
pagenum: 68; title: Reviews.
label: Books; title: "The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies" by Vito Russo
label: From Sissies to Studs; title: "Played Out: The Jean Seberg Story" by David Richards
label: Jean Seberg: Falling Star; label: Videography
pagenum: 78
title: Index to films mentioned in this issue which are available on videocassette.; label: Trailers
pagenum: 83
title: A brief look at upcoming films.; title: The French Lieutenant's Woman
label: Meryl's Marauders; title: Mommie Dearest
label: Trashy But Irresistible; title: One from the Heart
label: Heart of Lightness; title: Southern Comfort
label: Call of the Wild; title: Continental Divide
label: Samurai Romance; title: Raggedy Man
label: Lone-Star Love Story; label: American Film Classified Ads
pagenum: 85; label: From the Director
pagenum: 88
title: What's a Campus For?