American Film, Volume VIII, Number 2
Subtitle: November 1982
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: November 1982
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 96
Copyright date: 1982
Description: $2.00 cover price. Cover illustration of Jackie Gleason, as he appears in "The Sting II" by Stephen Durke.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 6; label: Letters
pagenum: 8; label: Newsreel
pagenum: 10
title: Short news stories; title: Beach films are back.
label: Everybody's Gone Filming; title: The Council on Nontheatrical Events
label: CINE at Twenty-Five; title: Direct-mail movie marketing
label: Dear Filmgoer; title: Product placement and placement products
label: Free on a Match; title: PG-13 in the works
label: Rating Ratings; label: Dialogue on Film: Dyan Cannon
pagenum: 18
title: Coming off good notices for "Deathtrap" and "Author! Author!," the actress pauses to discuss her work as a director.; label: VideoFile; label: Video Boom Busts Retailers
pagenum: 25
title: Cassettes are selling like hotcakes, but while studios waffle, video stores look for milk and honey.; label: Studios Demand Rent Control
pagenum: 27
title: Studios attempt to market tapes for rental only.; label: Scanlines
pagenum: 33; label: Videography
pagenum: 35; label: How Sweet It Was
pagenum: 38
title: In the golden age of television, no one had the Midas touch like Jackie Gleason. Now he's working harder than ever in the movies, but the thrill is gone.; label: Prairie Film Companion
pagenum: 46
title: You can't see Hollywood from Minnesota, but local filmmakers don't care. They're less concerned with making deals than making films about their own state.; label: History of the (Film) World, Part II
pagenum: 52
title: For decades, film historians have told us the same old story. Now, the next generation of scholars, asking different questions and using different methods, is writing its own version.; label: Letter from Paris: Mitterrand's Medialand
pagenum: 58
title: Has the election of a Socialist president brought a cultural revolution to French television? Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.; label: Marty
pagenum: 66
title: Martin Scorsese is hard at work on his new film, "The King of Comedy," starring Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis.; label: Paul Zimmerman: "Screenwriting Is Like the Priesthood"
pagenum: 72; label: Books
pagenum: 76
title: "Hitler," a Script from Germany; label: Trailers
pagenum: 93
title: Brief looks at "Still of the Night," "First Blood," "Brimstone and Treacle," "Night of the Shooting Stars," "Veronika Voss," & "National Lampoon's Class Reunion."; label: November Calendar for AFI Members
pagenum: 94; label: From the Director
pagenum: 96
title: What Price Quality?; label: Notable Advertisements; label: HBO
pagenum: 7
title: Celebrating a Decade of Innovation (Milton Berle photo); label: RCA
pagenum: 9
title: Videodiscs, assorted; label: Audi
pagenum: 10-11; label: Fuji
pagenum: 19
title: Super High Grade Videotapes; label: Sanyo
pagenum: 21
title: VCR 4000 Video Recorder; label: Thorn EMI Video
pagenum: 22-23
title: Cannes Film Festival Contest; label: Sony
pagenum: 24
title: Dynamicron videotapes; label: Kodak
pagenum: 29
title: Eastman film; label: MCA Video
pagenum: 30-31
title: Winter 1982 (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Thing, Conan the Barbarian, Sword and Sorcerer, Jazzercize, Jacki Sorensen's Aerobic Workout, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Duck Soup, Dracula, My Little Chickadee, Going My Way, Holiday Inn); label: Walt Disney Home Video
pagenum: 32
title: A Walt Disney Christmas; label: Maxell
pagenum: 50-51
title: HGX Videotape; label: CBS Fox Video
pagenum: 74-75
title: Star Wars; title: Santa's helpers. (Taxi Driver, The Who's Tommy, Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams, Hanky Panky, Neighbors, Stir Crazy, Kramer vs. Kramer, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Absence of Malice, Fail Safe, Only When I Laugh, The Three Stooges, Stropes, QBVII) - inner back cover
label: Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment