American Film, Volume II, Number 9
Subtitle: July-August 1977
Series: The Journal of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: July 1977
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1977
Description: Cover photo of Buster Keaton in "The General." $1.75 cover price.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 2; title: Hollis Alpert; label: Comment
pagenum: 4
title: A Greater Menace - Should TV film critics be banished?; title: Sebastian Jenner; label: Letters
pagenum: 5; label: McMurtry on the Movies
pagenum: 8
title: Woody Allen, Keith Carradine, Lily Tomlin, and the Disappearance of Grace - The sulkiness and shallowness of today's sex symbols.; title: Larry McMurtry; label: A Woman Directs in Hollywood!
pagenum: 10
title: On the set with Joan Darling, actress, teacher and now director of "First Love," perhaps "The Graduate" of the seventies.; title: Robert Sklar; label: Explorations
pagenum: 16
title: The Floating Camera - How a new device called Steadicam is conquering the hand-held shakes.; title: Richard Fuller; label: The Great Locomotive Chase
pagenum: 18
title: Buster Keaton's fifty-year-old classic "The General" - in fact and fiction; title: George Wead; label: The Miracle in Court
pagenum: 26
title: Twenty-five years ago the Supreme Court judgment gave movies their freedom of expression.; title: Lillian Gerard; label: Dialogue on Film: Dick Bensfield, Jack Elinson, Perry Grant
pagenum: 33
title: Three writers from the Norman Lear stable discuss their comedic craft.; label: The Auteur Theory Revisited
pagenum: 49
title: Clarification of the pesky theory is in order, and high time, too.; title: Andrew Sarris; label: Considering [Brian] De Palma
pagenum: 54
title: With "Carrie," the young director has attracted controversy and critics.; title: Royal S. Brown; label: Sound Track
pagenum: 62
title: The Cornerstone Collection - 25 favored recordings of classic film scores from John Barry to Franz Waxman; title: Robert Fiedel; label: AFI News
pagenum: 65; label: Festival Report
pagenum: 68
title: Paris, London and Vienna - The winter festivals of three nations diagnose the state of world cinema.; title: David Robinson; label: Focus on Education
pagenum: 72
title: Reprint Bonanza - Hail to Arno Press and its multifarious cinema series.; title: Stephen Zito; label: Books
pagenum: 74; title: Reviews of "Long Live the King: A Biography of Clark Gable" by Lyn Tornabene and "Vivien Leigh: A Biography" by Ann Edwards
label: Brigitte Weeks; title: Review of "Film and Revolution" by James Roy MacBean.
label: Robert Sklar; title: Review of "The Complete Encyclopedia of Television Programs 1947-1976" by Vincent Terrace and "TV Season 74=75" by Nina David.
label: James Monaco; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 80