American Film, Volume V, Number 1
Subtitle: October 1979
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: October 1979
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 88
Copyright date: 1979
Description: Cover photo of Richard Gere and Chick Vennera in John Schlesinger's "Yanks." Full-page ads for the movies "Rich Kids," "Time After Time." Centerfold insert of an ad for the American Film Institute's "Williamsburgh Weekend with Dustin Hoffman." 

$1.75 cover price. 88-page issue.

First page with "The Video Scene," an 8-page spread about home video printed on a heavier paper stock than the rest of the book.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; label: Lehman at Large: Anthropology 101
pagenum: 6
title: Filmmakers and other curious species.; label: About Television
pagenum: 10
title: An iron curtain of sameness.; label: Point of View
pagenum: 14
title: Commercials: The Subtle Sell; label: The Video Scene
pagenum: 17; label: Video Recorders: The Buyer's Dilemma; label: Progress in Programming
pagenum: 19; label: Videodiscs, TV on a Platter
pagenum: 69; label: Cable's New Surge
pagenum: 70; label: The Rise of Richard Gere
pagenum: 22
title: In just two years, this impressive young film actor has moved into a select group of stars. Behind his emergence is a noteworthy stage apprenticeship.; label: Frank Gifford: The Gentleman Caller
pagenum: 30
title: For millions of viewers of "Monday Night Football," the quarterback turned sportscaster is an island of sanity in a sea of excess. The surprise is that he's the same offscreen.; label: Man on a Shoestring
pagenum: 36
title: Independent filmmaker Mark Rappaport has made "Imposters," a macabre comedy, for $115,000. An on-location report.; label: Dialogue on Film: Arthur Hiller
pagenum: 41
title: The director of "Love Story," "Silver Streak," and "The In-Laws" talks about his Canadian origins, working with George C. Scott and Maximilian Schell, and some favorite movies.; label: Dory Schary Remembers MGM, Part 1
pagenum: 53
title: From screenwriter to head of the world's then-largest studio, Schary chronicles his strange encounters with such powers as Harry Ropf, L.B. Mayer and Nicholas Schenck.; label: Tess: Roman Polanski in Hardy Country
pagenum: 62
title: The Polish director has used the Normandy countryside to evoke the English classic "Tess of the D'Urbervilles."; label: Nastassia Kinski: "A Perfect Tess"
pagenum: 64; label: James Earl Jones Opens in "Paris"
pagenum: 73
title: No, not in the city, but on CBS as Woody Paris, detective. But can a powerful stage star find a weekly audience on television?; label: Books
pagenum: 78
title: Reviews.; title: "A Screen of Time: A Study of Luchino Visconti" by Monica Stirling; title: "Bleeding Between the Lines" by Eliot Asinof; label: AFI News
pagenum: 85; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 88