American Film, Volume VIII, Number 10
Subtitle: September 1983
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: September 1983
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 96
Copyright date: 1983
Other titles: Volume 8, Number 10
Description: David Bowie cover photo. $2.50 cover price.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; label: Letters
pagenum: 10; label: Newsreel
pagenum: 13
title: Short news stories; title: Amadeus
label: Scoring with Mozart; title: NBC's "Cheers" rips off WCVB's "Park Street Under."
label: Two "Cheers" for Television?; title: Bessie Smith and others featured in "Shouters and Wailers."
label: Ladies Sing the Blues; label: Flashback: Life Among the Americans
pagenum: 18
title: How I spoiled a Hollywood Christmas party, was blacklisted from work in New York, and almost punched Salvador Dali by Luis Bunuel; label: Dialogue on Film: Grant Tinker
pagenum: 23
title: The head of NBC takes stock of his two-year struggle for high ratings and quality programming.; label: Oshima and Bowie
pagenum: 26
title: Nagisa Oshima directs David Bowie in 'Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence' - a meditation on the clash between East and West.; label: Oshima
pagenum: 28
title: Sex, Militarism and Empire; label: Bowie
pagenum: 29
title: Let's Act; label: More Than Just a Pretty Face
pagenum: 34
title: Reflections on the art and artifice of Hollywood glamour photography.; label: That Championship Season
pagenum: 43
title: Confounding the doomsayers, the TV networks are launching what promises to be the best new lineup in years.; label: The Mailing of the Movies
pagenum: 52
title: In their search for guaranteed audiences and promotional tie-ins, studios are producing made-for-mall movies. But would Citizen Kane have sold at the Galleria?; label: It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's a Camera!
pagenum: 59
title: The creator of the steadicam explores the uses (and abuses) of his latest invention, the Skycam.; label: Beauty Bests the Beast
pagenum: 62
title: Violence against women continues in the new horror film, but blades can cut both ways.; label: VideoFile
pagenum: 66; title: Hold on to that complex -- we'll be right back after this word from our sponsors.
label: The Electronic Couch; title: EZTV opens in Hollywood
label: Easy Viewing; title: The Loud family returns in "American Family Revisited."
label: "Family" Reunion; title: Communication Bridge offers video production training to disadvantaged youth.
label: Big Brother Video; label: Collector's Choice: Westerns
pagenum: 72
title: Kick off your boots, lean back and enjoy these rip-roaring tapes in the privacy of your own back forty.; label: Books
pagenum: 79
title: Reviews; label: Trailers
pagenum: 94
title: Danton, All the Right Moves, The Honorary Consul, The Eyes The Mouth, and Heat and Dust; label: From the Director
pagenum: 96
title: Confessions of a Cable Addict; title: NOTABLE ADS; label: CBS Video Library
pagenum: 6
title: 2-page spread for World War II with Walter Cronkite; label: Paramount Home Video
pagenum: 19
title: Flashdance; label: Maxell Video
pagenum: 20
title: 2-page spread: "Play it again, Sam" (Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca); label: ABC Motion Pictures
pagenum: 46
title: The Day After; label: NBC
pagenum: 51
title: Kennedy, Roses, Adam, Scandal in Willmar, Ordinary People; label: CBS Fox Video
pagenum: 67
title: Table for Five; label: RCA Columbia Home Video
pagenum: 69
title: The King of Comedy