American Film, Volume IV, Number 2
Subtitle: November 1978
Series: The Journal of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: November 1978
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1978
Description: Cover: 136th Street in Harlem; Billie Holiday (Design by Phyllis Cox).  Back cover features an advertisement for "Superman: The Movie." $1.75 cover price.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; title: Hollis Alpert; label: Comment
pagenum: 6
title: A British view of television violence.; label: Letters
pagenum: 8; label: Point of View: The Ghost of Films Past
pagenum: 10
title: On movies and memory.; title: Stanley Kauffmann; label: Inner Circles:
pagenum: 12
title: Confessions of a job hunter in the movies.; title: Steve Slon; label: About Television: A Season to Be Weary
pagenum: 14
title: Our man courageously samples the new season.; title: Martin Mayer; label: A Memory of Harlem
pagenum: 18
title: Filmmaker William Miles returns with camera to recapture the Harlem of his youth.; title: Karen De Witt; label: Neovideo: One Step Away
pagenum: 28
title: The electronic media revolution accelerates. Just ahead, a complex and exciting video world.; title: James Monaco; label: The Rise of Herbert Ross
pagenum: 34
title: Directing one's way to the top. How to be a good AND successful director.; title: Stephen Zito; label: Doing a Job on Brink's
pagenum: 42
title: In Boston, director William Friedkin is re-creating the notorious robbery. The new gang includes Peter Falk; some of the old gang are there, too, in "The Brink's Job."; title: Bernard Drew; label: Shorts Are Films, Too
pagenum: 48
title: And theaters around the country are showing them, thanks to a government-sponsored program for independent filmmakers.; title: Stephen Lawson; label: Dialogue on Film: Robert Aldrich
pagenum: 51
title: The director of "The Dirty Dozen" assesses his work, his days with Renoir, and the trials of moviemaking.; label: The Lost Film of Orson Welles
pagenum: 63
title: "Too Much Johnson" was made - and disappeared.; title: Frank Brady; title: Reviews
label: Books; title: "Celebrity: The Media as Image Makers" and "Media Culture," both edited by James Monaco.
label: Morris Dickstein; title: "Dame Edith Evans: Ned's Girl" by Bryan Forbes
label: Brigitte Weeks; title: "The Penguin Film Review 1946-1949" edited by Roger Manvell.
label: John Russell Taylor; label: AFI News
pagenum: 75; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 80