American Film, Volume III, Number 9
Subtitle: July-August 1978
Series: The Journal of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: July 1978
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 84
Copyright date: 1978
Description: Cover photo of Ricky Schroeder and Jon Voight in the remake of "The Champ." $1.75 cover price.  Special 84 page issue.

Ads for movies begin sneaking in several issues earlier (and would steadily increase throughout the 1980s) but this is the first with multiple ads, including "The Swarm," "Eyes of Laura Mars," "Hooper" and "Jaws 2."
Table of contents: label: "The Swarm" ad
pagenum: Inner Cover; label: Table of Contents
pagenum: 1; label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 2; title: Hollis Alpert; label: "Eyes of Laura Mars" ad
pagenum: 3; label: Comment: Packaging the Paranormal
pagenum: 4
title: On film and television, pseudoscience is being hyped as "scientific truth."; title: Paul Kurtz; label: Letters
pagenum: 8; label: "Hooper" ad
pagenum: 9; label: Lehman at Large: Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture
pagenum: 10
title: A plot for our time.; title: Ernest Lehman; label: Lord Laurence Olivier as Nazi Hunter
pagenum: 12
title: In "The Boys from Brazil," the great actor confronts Gregory Peck as the villainous Dr. Mengele.; title: Bernard Drew; label: Explorations: Experiments in Ann Arbor
pagenum: 16
title: New avant-garde films are low in polemics, high in wit.; title: Edgar Daniels; label: About Television: The Unconnected Australians
pagenum: 18
title: In the absence of networks, Australia makes due with local ingenuity.; title: Martin Mayer; label: The Joy of Italian Television
pagenum: 20
title: "Deep Throat" on prime time? Yes, in Italy, where a chaos of private stations has replaced government monopoly with striptease and pornography.; title: Roland Flamini; label: Hollywood Cloning: Sequels, Prequels, Remakes, and Spin-Offs
pagenum: 24
title: Once is not enough - especially if it was successful - and so here comes "More American Graffiti," "The Champ," "Godfather III," not to mention the return of Scarett and Rhett.; title: Stephen M. Silverman; label: After "The Graduate"
pagenum: 32
title: In 1967 it seemed like the dawning of a new Hollywood age. Now, a decade later...; title: Andrew Sarris; title: A revealing talk with the famed Indian filmmaker on his latest work, "The Chess Players," his early struggles, his filmmaking methods, and his problems with his compatriots.
label: Dialogue on Film: Satyuajit Ray; label: A Special Report Stealing the Show: The Piracy Problem
pagenum: 57
title: Film piracy is nothing new to the motion picture industry. What is new, however, is the pirates' arsenal, which includes new home video recorders.; title: James Monaco; label: Festival Report
pagenum: 68; title: Dallas spotlights Americana
label: George Wead; title: Monte Carlo: Monaco gambols with international television
label: Arthur Unger; label: Focus on Education: Berkeley's Lively Archive
pagenum: 72
title: The Pacific Film Archive plays host to both Hollywood superstars and the auteurs of the underground.; title: Louisa Williams; label: AFI News
pagenum: 73; label: Books
pagenum: 76
title: Reviews.; title: "The Films in My Life" by Franois Truffaut.
label: Roger Greenspun; title: "F. Scott Fitzgerald's Screenplay for Three Comrades" by Matthew J. Bruccoli.
label: Richard Levinson and William Link; title: "Guts and Glory: Great American War Movies" by Lawrence H. Suid.
label: Martin Blumenson; label: "Jaws 2" ad
pagenum: Back Cover