American Film, Volume VI, Number 4
Subtitle: January-February 1981
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: January 1981
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1981
Description: $2.00 cover price. Cover photo of Joel Schumacher, Jeremy Joe Kronsberg and Taylor Hackford.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; title: Warner Home Video (featuring Nelvana's B.L. Zebub from "The Devil and Daniel Mouse").
label: Ad; label: Letters
pagenum: 8; label: Ads
pagenum: 9
title: Christian Children's Fund featuring Sally Struthers; title: 2-page "Magnetic Video" ad featuring Bette Midler in "The Rose," as well as "Alien," "The Muppet Movie," and "Julia."
pagenum: 10; title: Maxell, "The First High Grade Videotape"
pagenum: 12; label: Lehman at Large: Remembrances of Things Trashed
pagenum: 13
title: Where is it written into my contract with this universe that I'm not allowed EVER to say that there must be more meaning to life than the creating of clever, witty, entertaining, satiric, biting essays on the movie industry?; label: Point of View: Big Books, Small Screens
pagenum: 16
title: The real bawdiness of "From Here to Eternity" was just as definitely missing from the television version as the pitch and sharpness were lacking in the small-screen "Pride and Prejudice."; label: Ad
pagenum: 17
title: Video Action Magazine, The First Total Video Magazine; label: Festival Report: Venice, from Basta to Bravo
pagenum: 18
title: The arena turned into a gladiatorial battleground, where some films were put to the sword, some fed to the lions, and a few given a rapturous thumbs up.; label: Ad
pagenum: 19
title: Ken Russell's "Altered States"; label: Francis Ford Coppola Presents: Napoleon
pagenum: 20
title: For 53 years one of the most extraordinary motion pictures of the 20th century was lost. On January 23rd, this epic film comes to Radio City Music Hall; label: First-Time Directors: A New Breed
pagenum: 22
title: Hollywood is courting new directing talent. But unlike the "whiz kids" of the 60s, most of today's newcomers are industry veterans.; label: Abel Gance's Epic: Napoleon Returns from Exile
pagenum: 28
title: For decades, one of the silent film masterpieces was scattered in fragments around the world. On January 23, the reconstructed film will have its New York premiere. The man who rescued "Napoleon" recounts the story - an adventure that began when he was still a schoolboy.; label: In the Midnight Hour
pagenum: 34
title: "The Harder They Come," "Eraserhead," "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" - movies like these are giving young audiences a new reason to stay up late. And hundreds of theaters around the country are discovering there's money after midnight.; label: What Every Parent Should Know About Television
pagenum: 38
title: When the unformed mind of a young child encounters television, the consequences may be more serious than adults think.; label: Dialogue on Film: Irvin Kershner
pagenum: 45
title: The director of "The Empire Strikes Back," "Eyes of Laura Mars," and "The Hoodlum Priest" discusses his early years as a documentary filmmaker, his running battles with heavy-handed distributors, and the problems of making a sequel to the most popular movie of all-time.; label: TV Opera Hits a High Note
pagenum: 53
title: "A Bayou Legend," scheduled for February on PBS, may set a new standard for televised opera.; label: Explorations: How to Read an Avant-Garde Film
pagenum: 56
title: Over the last 15 years, avant-garde film has garnered a fair amount of shelf space in bookstores and libraries. Most of the books discussed here are still in-print; nearly all are available in paperback.; label: Books
pagenum: 59
title: The Crisis in Film Book Publishing: Film books, one the hot new thing, have become yet another specialized field - and trade houses now balk at publishing almost any film book except "a star tells all."; label: Review: The Producer as Auteur
pagenum: 60
title: "David O. Selznick's Hollywood" by Ronald Haver; label: Review: The Informers, Then and Now
pagenum: 64
title: "Naming Names" by Victor S. Navasky; label: AFI News
pagenum: 77; label: American Film Classified Ads
pagenum: 78; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 80