American Film, Volume III, Number 2
Subtitle: November 1977
Series: The Journal of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: November 1977
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1977
Description: Cover photo of Brooke Shields and David Carradine from "Pretty Baby." $1.75 cover price.

Last edition with Larry McMurtry's column "McMurtry on the Movies."
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 2; title: Hollis Alpert; label: Letters
pagenum: 4; label: Comment: Season of the Arts
pagenum: 5
title: Movies are the place where culture and democracy meet and admire each other.; title: Roger Rosenblatt; label: McMurtry on the Movies: The Last Movie Column
pagenum: 6
title: Our regular columnist takes his leave with a few parting shots.; title: Larry McMurtry; label: Pretty Baby: Love in Storyville
pagenum: 8
title: Louis Malle's first American film - a strange romance between a photographer and a child prostitute - may be his most controversial yet.; title: Antonio Chemasi; label: Life in the Comedy Factory
pagenum: 16
title: "Carter Country," ABC's high-rated sit-come, which supposedly takes place in the South, is not always a laughing matter.; title: Stephen Zito; label: Festival Report: Moscow
pagenum: 23
title: World understanding, nyet; but a world of films, da.; title: Albert Johnson; label: Close Encounters with Steven Spielberg
pagenum: 24
title: The young director of "Jaws" has even bigger surprises in store with "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" - $18 million worth.; title: Bruce Cook; label: Robert Shaw: No More Food For Fish
pagenum: 30
title: At fifty, Shaw is reevaluating his career and thinking about all the movies he doesn't want to make.; title: Bernard Drew; label: Dialogue on Film: Michael Ritchie
pagenum: 33
title: Ritchie is one of America's hot new directors. Here he talks about Robert Redford, "The Bad News Bears," and his new film, "Semi-Tough."; label: Growing Up with Joan Ganz Cooney
pagenum: 51
title: "The Best of Families," from the people who brought you "Sesame Street," turns Children's Television Workshop into an adult workshop, too.; title: Robert Sklar; label: The Mighty Show Machine
pagenum: 56
title: RKO Pictures, the studio that gave us "King Kong" and "Citizen Kane," had its interior dramas, too. The cast of characters includes Joseph P. Kennedy and Howard Hughes. Part I.; title: Ron Haver; label: AFI News
pagenum: 62; label: Explorations: Moles, Groundmen and Weasels
pagenum: 66
title: Filming professional football for fun and profit: a look at NFL Films of Philadelphia.; title: Lewis Beale; label: Focus on Education: School for Scoring
pagenum: 68
title: Helping young composers find their way into music for the movies.; title: Gene Lees; label: Books
pagenum: 70; title: Elegy for a Critic - Reflections on Charles Thomas Samuels, author of "Mastering the Film and Other Essays," edited by Lawrence Graver.
label: John Simon; title: Review of "Life is a Banquet: The Autobiography of Rosalind Russell."
label: Brigitte Weeks; title: "Film/Cinema/Movie: A Theory of Experience" by Gerald Mast.
label: Larry Swindell; title: "America in the Dark: Hollywood and the Gift of Unreality" by David Thomson.
label: George Wead; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 78