American Film, Volume V, Number 9
Subtitle: July-August 1980
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: July 1980
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 72
Copyright date: 1980
Description: First issue with a $2.00 cover price. Cover photo of Paul Mazursky.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; label: Letters
pagenum: 6; title: Developments in programming and technology affecting the home viewer
label: The Video Scene; title: Show Time on [Video] Cassette
pagenum: 9; title: A Good B.E.T.
pagenum: 12; label: Lehman at Large: Hitch
pagenum: 18
title: He was a mischievous child who took marvelous enjoyment in playing his games and letting us watch.; label: Point of View: Lou Grant - Too Good, Too True?
pagenum: 20
title: Lou Grant is an archetype, a mythical character. His values are genuine, they touch our hearts, they embody the spirit that made America great.; label: All That Jazz... Swing... Pop... and Rock
pagenum: 26
title: All about "American Pop," Ralph Bakshi's animated show business chronicle.; label: Battle of the TV Parties
pagenum: 33
title: WNAC-TV, critics agreed, was a badly run station. But before a civic-minded group could wrest control and improve programming, the FCC stepped in with an unprecedented ruling. Here's a story replete with ironies.; label: News: Television's Bargain Basement
pagenum: 36
title: Prime-time prestige, and the prices are right.; label: Paul Mazursky and Willie and Phil
pagenum: 42
title: Paul Mazursky follows his "An Unmarried Woman" with a Truffaut-like study of a latter-day triangle. There's Willie, there's Phil, there's Jeanette, and they all love one another.; label: The Wooing of Burt Reynolds
pagenum: 46
title: When Burt Reynolds and company decided to film a sequel to "Smokey and the Bandit," Florida's state film office decided it wanted a piece of the action. After all, moviemaking means business for everyone, and in the competition among state film offices, every movie counts.; label: Books
pagenum: 53
title: Reviews; title: "Crime Movies: An Illustrated History" by Carlos Clarens; title: "Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style" by Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward; title: "Thirty Seconds" by Michael J. Arlen; label: Dialogue on Film: The AFI-Aspen Conference
pagenum: 57
title: What's the future of film? That was the provocative topic for a recent gathering of experts from Hollywood and elsewhere. We offer a sampling from the lively debate.; label: AFI News
pagenum: 69; label: American Film Classified Ads
pagenum: 70; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 72