American Film, Volume VI, Number 2
Subtitle: November 1980
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: November 1980
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1980
Description: $2.00 cover price. Cover photo of Robert DeNiro in "Raging Bull."
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4
title: AFI director Jean Firstenberg comments on the departure of editor-in-chief Hollis Alpert.; label: Letters
pagenum: 6; label: Lehman at Large: Strike While the Irony is Hot
pagenum: 8
title: It's terrible in the here and now. No new films are being made. Producers have nothing to produce except little producers. Studio executives are taking meetings, but only with their husbands.; label: About Television: Why the Networks Are Afraid of John le Carré
pagenum: 12
title: No script based on a le Carré novel is going to read right. It will be cluttered with flashbacks, or naggingly incomplete. That is the explanation New York's Channel 13 gives for the failure of the networks to pick up "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy."; label: Point of View: Calling the Strikes
pagenum: 16
title: It does the issue no justice to treat the actors' strike as a simple confrontation of workers and bosses. The strike is an accounting dispute whose roots can be found in the hegemony of the studio system and subsequent deals between SAG and the industry.; title: Developments in programming and technology affecting the home viewer
label: The Video Scene; label: The Big Apple: First in Video
pagenum: 21; label: Martin Scorsese Fights Back
pagenum: 30
title: "Raging Bull," his first feature film in 3 years, is about a boxer's intense dedication to his craft. The parallels to Scorsese may not be coincidental.; title: A visual feast of the man and his work.
label: The Opulent World of David O. Selznick; label: The Films of Michael Powell: A Romantic Sensibility
pagenum: 47
title: An appreciation of film's gentleman poet, whose work has ranged from the fanciful "Red Shoes" and "Thief of Bagdad" to the daring "Peeping Tom."; label: Dialogue on Film: Joseph Losey
pagenum: 53
title: The expatriate director ("The Go-Between," "Accident," "Don Giovanni") discusses his many collaborations with Harold Pinter, teaching film , and the difficulties translating opera onto film.; label: A Question of Quality
pagenum: 61
title: What are the critical standards of television? Television is a medium whose critical standards are borrowed from other forms - film, theater, radio. Yet television is high-speed, high volume. How then can quality on television be assessed? A discussion of the issues.; label: The Network Gamble: Ratings or Prestige?
pagenum: 64
title: Are both ends played against the middle?; label: Explorations: Freudian Clips
pagenum: 66
title: The relationship between Freudian ideas and motion pictures dates back to their separate origins. Freud coined the term "psychoanalysis" the year Lumières' held their first public exhibition.; label: Books: Naming Names
pagenum: 69
title: An excerpt from Victor S. Navasky's new study of the effects of the blacklist on Hollywood.; label: AFI News
pagenum: 76; label: American Film Classified Ads
pagenum: 78; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 80; label: Notable Advertisements; label: Video Club of America
pagenum: 1; label: Walt Disney Home Video
pagenum: 11
title: features an original rendering of Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice; label: The Magnetic Video Corporation
pagenum: 18-19
title: Horror releases ("Mad Monster Party," "Phantasm," "Alien," "Blood of the Vampire," "The Omen," "The Manitou"); label: Columbia Pictures Home Video
pagenum: 25