American Film, Volume II, Number 4
Subtitle: February 1977
Series: The Journal of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: February 1977
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1977
Description: $1.75 cover price.  Cover features a sketch for the library sequence in "Gone with the Wind" by Dorthea Holt, under the supervision of William Cameron Menzies; printed on the reverse is a black-and-white ad for the film "Nickelodeon." The 8-page "Dialogue on Film" Q&A midsection with art director Harry Horner is printed on opal-colored paper. 

The magazine returns to 80 pages after a bloated edition.
Table of contents: label: Comment
pagenum: 2
title: Personal Foul; label: Letters
pagenum: 3; label: McMurtry on the Movies
pagenum: 4
title: The Situation in Criticism: Reviewers, Critics, Professors; label: The Professor as TV Star
pagenum: 6
title: John Kenneth Galbraith's Video Adventure! The formidable ecologist turns TV host this spring for "The Age of Uncertainty," a major series on the forces that shaped the modern world. How did he take to the cameras? His wife followed the filming here and abroud - and gives us this unusually reliable report.; label: The Art of the Art Director
pagenum: 12
title: Designing the Film. They toil unseen, literally behind the scenes - often unknown - yet art directors have much to do with what we remember most about a film: the look, the mood, the style.; label: Prime Time Soap Opera
pagenum: 22
title: Suds in the evening. Why are we crying when we should be laughing? Why are we tuning in next week? Why? Because evening television has gone the way of the afternoons.; label: What's in it for Us?
pagenum: 28
title: In pursuit of car-culture movies, vehicles run rampant through our cities with the benign cooperation of police and officials. In this last of a series, author Julian Smith pursues his own inquiry.; label: Dialogue on Film: Harry Horner
pagenum: 33; label: Where Has Everybody Gone?
pagenum: 53
title: Bill Holden Remembers When... William Holden reflects on the old days, some good, some not so good.; label: AFI News
pagenum: 57; label: Festival Report; title: Lincoln Center
pagenum: 59; title: Women's Film Festival
pagenum: 60; label: The View from the Television Tower
pagenum: 62
title: The Executive Suite and America. How the men who enforce standards and practices view their jobs, regard their critics, and think about sex and violence on television.; label: Explorations
pagenum: 68
title: Down, Down to "The Deep"; title: Reviews.
label: Books; label: Easy Writer
pagenum: 72
title: "Dalton Trumbo" by Bruce Cook; label: Cult and Puffery: On Hitchcock
pagenum: 74
title: "The Art of Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years of His Motion Pictures" by Donald Spoto; title: "Hollywood Costume: Glamour! Glitter! Romance!" by Dale McConcathy with Diana Vreeland, "Hollywood Costume Design" by David Chierichietti, and "Costume Design in the Movies" by Elizabeth Leese
label: Dressing Up; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 79