American Film, Volume V, Number 10
Subtitle: September 1980
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: September 1980
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 72
Copyright date: 1980
Description: $2.00 cover price. Cover photo of John Huston.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; label: Letters
pagenum: 6; label: About Television: The Comprehension Problem
pagenum: 8
title: Some 2,700 viewers were shown two 30-second commercials, then asked to judge 6 statements about each film, true or false. More than half the viewers got more than one answer wrong.; label: Advertisement
pagenum: 10
title: Doubleday "Fireside Theatre" Book Club; label: Letter from Rio: A Family Affair
pagenum: 12
title: With his devoted family alongside, L.C. Barreto cares religiously about putting Brazilian films on a map that includes Europe and North America.; label: Lehman at Large: Getting It On
pagenum: 16
title: I've been floating around the studios lately, keeping my ear to the ground and taking notes on the Dialogues of Discontent passing back and forth among filmmakers.; label: Thy Neighbor's Television
pagenum: 19
title: Did you know that nine out of ten TV characters don't have children? That 85% of all TV women are under 40? That much of the erotic activity on television involves violence? There's increasing study of television's sex life - and with good reason.; label: A New Season: Promises, Promises
pagenum: 24
title: Pilots for the season's new programs are like the carnival barker's spiel: They're designed to entice viewers into the television tent, and they probably promise more of the seamy, sexy stuff than they intend to deliver.; label: Coming: Soaps and Spin-Offs
pagenum: 30
title: A breakdown of new shows on the fall schedule; label: The Aesthetics of Fright
pagenum: 32
title: These days increasing numbers of moviegoers are paying to be terrified by horror films. What's the dark secret behind this profitable phenomenon?; label: John Huston: At 74 No Formulas
pagenum: 38
title: The critical success of Wise Blood has given second wind to the director's variegated career. Here Huston talks of work - past, present and future.; label: Explorations: Robert Breer's Animated World
pagenum: 46
title: Breerworld is homey but timultuous, filled with sudden shifts in scale or color, flash frame jolts, and a steady back beat of good-natured apocalypse.; label: Dialogue on Film: Tony Bill
pagenum: 49
title: The maverick actor and producer ("The Sting," "Hearts of the West") talks about his debut as a director - "My Bodyguard," a film he shot with mostly non-actors - and about the subtle art of film promotion.; title: Reviews
label: Books; label: Balm of Gilliatt
pagenum: 60
title: "Three-Quarter Face: Reports and Reflections" by Penelope Gilliatt; label: Hollywood Class
pagenum: 61
title: "This Life" by Sidney Poitier; label: AFI News
pagenum: 69; label: American Film Classified Ads
pagenum: 70; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 72