American Film, Volume II, Number 6
Subtitle: April 1977
Series: The Journal of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: April 1977
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1977
Description: Star Wars cover photo of Mark Hamill and C-3PO. $1.75 cover price.
Table of contents: label: Letters
pagenum: 3; label: Comment
pagenum: 4
title: The Electronic Scapegoat - Sex and violence on the screen, the facts outweigh the myths.; title: by G. William Jones; label: McMurtry on the Movies
pagenum: 6
title: Writers and the Hollywood of Romance - Can a novelist, in pursuit of realism, write a novel on Hollywood, that site of romance? Yes and no.; title: by Larry McMurtry; label: George Lucas Goes Far Out
pagenum: 8
title: "American Graffiti," a hit with the young, made him an overnight success. Four years and millions later he's turned up "Star Wars," an outer space fantasy. Children of all ages, take notice.; title: by Stephen Zito; label: Kiss Tomorrow Hello
pagenum: 14
title: Science fiction films are coming back - but unlike the fifties, today's sci-fi films care more about the world's future look than its end.; title: by Michael Wood; label: A Farewell to the Male Mystique
pagenum: 18
title: Pirate, jewel thief or sheik, the male sex symbol enlivened the dull world of preliberation women. Now he's gone and unmourned.; title: by Jeanine Basinger; label: The Fonz, Laverne, Shirley, and the American Class Struggle
pagenum: 24
title: What does it mean when the sitcoms turn hostile, showing conflict between the lives of the working people and the American dream?; title: by Robert Sklar; label: The Middle Ages of British Television
pagenum: 30
title: Starting their fifth decade, the airwaves of the Lion's realm offer sitcoms, classics, and uncertainty.; title: by David Thomson; label: Dialogue on Film: Gore Vidal
pagenum: 33
title: The controversial novelist, screenwriter, and graduate of television's Golden Age unleashes his biting wit on movie directors, the auteur theory, television, other writers, and, alas, his latest movie, "Caligula."; label: AFI News
pagenum: 51; label: Festival Report
pagenum: 53
title: Chicago - Here Comes the Germans; title: by Roger Ebert; label: California, Here I Am!
pagenum: 54
title: When the Big Apple turned sour, this movie songwriter went West - like other show business folk - and fell in love with L.A. Really?; title: by Gene Lees; label: Explorations
pagenum: 60
title: Filmin' Round the Mountain - Whitesburg, Kentucky, isn't Hollywood, but it has young filmmakers whose "stars" are the people of Appalachia.; title: by Thomas Wiener; label: Sound Track
pagenum: 62
title: Changing the Score - Today's film composers find small is beautiful.; title: by Royal S. Brown; label: Letter from London
pagenum: 65
title: Suddenly, it's a lively place for film fans; title: by Jonathan Rosenbaum; label: Inner Circles
pagenum: 67
title: Adventures of an Amateur Publicist - Playing Boswell to Joseph Levine on the Belgian set of "A Bridge Too Far."; label: Focus on Education
pagenum: 70
title: Talking History - News tools for the film historian.; title: by Milton Plesur; label: Books
pagenum: 72; title: Pioneers of Animation - A review of Leslie Cabarga's "The Fleischer Story" and Bob Thomas's "Walt Disney: An American Original."
label: Phyllis Franck; title: Undercutting McLuhan - A review of Raymond Williams' "Television: Technology and Cultural Form" and the Aspen Institute's "Television as a Cultural Force."
label: James Monaco; title: Monster Mush - A review of Cynthia Lindsay's "Dear Boris."
label: William D. Routt; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 80