American Film, Volume V, Number 2
Subtitle: November 1979
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: November 1979
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 88
Description: Cover photo of Bob Fosse; advertisement for a re-release of "Fiddler on the Roof" on the opposite side.  $1.75 cover price.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; label: Letters
pagenum: 6; label: Lehman at Large: The New Hollywood
pagenum: 8
title: Harry Farber meets Sheldon Vanderbilt.; label: About Television
pagenum: 14
title: Older viewers are richer.; label: Point of View
pagenum: 18
title: Revenues and relevance in television.; title: 21
label: The Video Scene; title: Comsat's Space Challenge; title: Cinema Via Videotape
pagenum: 23; title: Which Way British TV?
pagenum: 65; label: Life as Long Rehearsal
pagenum: 26
title: Bob Fosse's "All That Jazz" is a confessional, hallucinatory extravaganza. Here is his candid assessment of a frenetic life in film and theater.; label: Behind Emmy
pagenum: 32
title: There's dissension in the ranks of the television academy. Threatened is the 31 year old awards ritual.; label: Where is the Avant-Garde Going?
pagenum: 36
title: Today's buzzwords in experimental film include "autobiography," "psychodrama" and "assemblage." A guide for the uninitiated.; label: Dialogue on Film: Melvin Frank
pagenum: 41
title: The director of "A Touch of Class" talks about the fine points of comedy, his collaboration - for 3 decades - with Norman Panama, and his work with performers like George Segal and Glenda Jackson.; label: Heyday in Hollywood: Part II
pagenum: 50
title: Dory Schary realls his 8 tumultuous years as head of MGM.; label: Fading, Fading, Faded: The Color Film Crisis
pagenum: 56
title: The colors in "The Wizard of Oz" are as glorious today as they were forty years ago. But those in "Tom Jones," made in 1963, are already deteriorating. Why are recent films on the endangered list?; label: Salvador Dali: Reluctant Filmmaker
pagenum: 62
title: For 50 years, the egocentric surrealist has mixed painting and film. His latest work: a cinematic self-portrait 25 years in the making.; label: AFI News
pagenum: 69; label: Festival Report
pagenum: 72
title: Internationalism at Edinburgh.; label: Take Two
pagenum: 80
title: A reassessment of Ernst Lubitsch's "To Be or Not to Be."; label: Books
pagenum: 82
title: Reviews.; title: "When the Shooting Stops... the Cutting Begins" by Ralph Rosenblum and Robert Karen; title: "The Networks: How They Stole the Show" by A. Frank Reel; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 88