American Film, Volume VII, Number 7
Subtitle: May 1982
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: May 1982
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 72
Copyright date: 1982
Description: $2.00 cover price. Cover photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan.  

For the first time in the history of the magazine, the "Dialogue on Film" section (featuring director John Landis) is interrupted, split across various of sections of the book.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 5; label: Letters
pagenum: 6; label: Newsreel
pagenum: 8
title: Short news stories; title: "Let's Spend the Night Together"
label: Rolling Stones Gather Film Audience; title: ABC TV series
label: Today's FBI: Tomorrow's CIA?; title: Hoffmann-La Roche freaks over Valium use in "I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can"
label: Drug Company Down on Valium Movie; title: "The Atomic Cafe" documentary
label: Bombs Away; title: "Ragtime," "Making Love," "The Border" each get unique advertising tie-ins
label: Studios Target Minorities; label: Dialogue on Film: John Landis
pagenum: 10
title: The director of "Animal House" and "An American Werewolf in London" talks about success, politics, and the making of "The Blues Brothers."; title: Developments in technology affecting the home viewer.
label: The Video Scene; label: Video Guru
pagenum: 13
title: From televised fish to video beds, Nam June Paik is remaking the world with electronic imagery.; label: Diamonds are Cable's Best Friends
pagenum: 16
title: For armchair baseball fans, pay television may soon be the only game in town.; label: Videography
pagenum: 20
title: Films available on videocassette.; label: Letter from Hungary: In the Shadow of Poland
pagenum: 23
title: A film festival in the provincial city of Pécs reveals the new Hungarian byword: caution.; label: The Last Word on Cannes
pagenum: 26
title: The worst of Cannes has always been the best of Cannes. But that may not be enough any more.; label: [John] Milius the Barbarian
pagenum: 32
title: The writer-director behind "Conan" has been portrayed as a fire-breathing, liberal-baiting reactionary. It's an image he relishes.; label: Mr. Universe Conquers a New World
pagenum: 36
title: Arnold Schwarzenegger transitions to acting.; label: Whose Life Is It Anyway?
pagenum: 38
title: As movies turn to the lives of real people for inspiration, authors and producers battle over the question: Can history be copyrighted?; label: King of Comedy: The Rise of Preston Sturges
pagenum: 42
title: His breakneck farces dominated forties movie comedy - and have touched off a fever of remakes.; label: The Great McGinty
pagenum: 44
title: From writer to director; label: Carol Burnett Gets a Kick Out of "Annie"
pagenum: 46
title: The aggressively normal television comedienne acts out our hostile fantasies.; label: Letting Go
pagenum: 53
title: Regulating the Airwaves; label: Should Broadcasters Mind Their Own Business?
pagenum: 54
title: The FCC says yes, Congress isn't sure, and citizens' groups worry about the consequences.; label: A Who's Who of Broadcast Policy
pagenum: 55
title: Bios on Erwin G. Krasnow, John Dingell, Al Swift, Mark Fowler, Robert Packwood, Howard Cannon, Tim Wirth, Samuel Simon, Eugene Cowen, and Everett C. Parker; label: Broadcast Regulations at a Glance
pagenum: 58; label: Regulating the New Technologies
pagenum: 59; title: Reviews.
label: Books; label: Through a Glass Darkly
pagenum: 62
title: "Ingmar Bergman and the Rituals of Art" by Paisley Livingston & "Film & Dreams: An Approach to Ingmar Bergman" by Vlada Petric.; label: American Film Classified Ads
pagenum: 66; label: AFI Events Around the Country
pagenum: 69; label: Trailers
pagenum: 70
title: Brief looks at "The Escape Artist," "Wrong is Right," "Independence Day," "Partners" and "The Road Warrior."; label: From the Director
pagenum: 72
title: The BFI Nears 50; label: Notable Advertisements; label: TDK
pagenum: 2
title: A video cassette mechanism needs to be more than a package for your tape.; label: Warner Home Video
pagenum: 4
title: Princes of the City, Body Heat, Arthur; label: Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment
pagenum: 11
title: "Stripes" now available on videocassette; label: Sony
pagenum: 12
title: Dynamicron videotapes; label: Scotch
pagenum: 27
title: Video tapes; label: Vestron Video
pagenum: 28
title: Comedy Tonight, Joe, Loving Couples, My Brilliant Career, Good Guys Wear Black, Video Aerobics Home Exercise Course, Let's Dance with Arthur Miller; label: RCA
pagenum: 71
title: 8-Hour Selectavision video tapes; title: Video Tapes (inner back cover)
label: Maxell; title: Honky Tonk Freeway, Heartland, The Mirror Crack'd, Two-Way Stretch, Dead of Night, etc. (back cover)
label: Thorn EMI Video