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An edition of American Film (1975)

American Film, Volume VI, Number 2

November 1980

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Table of Contents

The Editing Room. AFI director Jean Firstenberg comments on the departure of editor-in-chief Hollis Alpert. Page 4
Letters. Page 6
Lehman at Large: Strike While the Irony is Hot. It's terrible in the here and now. No new films are being made. Producers have nothing to produce except little producers. Studio executives are taking meetings, but only with their husbands. Page 8
About Television: Why the Networks Are Afraid of John le Carré. No script based on a le Carré novel is going to read right. It will be cluttered with flashbacks, or naggingly incomplete. That is the explanation New York's Channel 13 gives for the failure of the networks to pick up "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy." Page 12
Point of View: Calling the Strikes. It does the issue no justice to treat the actors' strike as a simple confrontation of workers and bosses. The strike is an accounting dispute whose roots can be found in the hegemony of the studio system and subsequent deals between SAG and the industry. Page 16
The Video Scene. Developments in programming and technology affecting the home viewer
The Big Apple: First in Video. Page 21
Martin Scorsese Fights Back. "Raging Bull," his first feature film in 3 years, is about a boxer's intense dedication to his craft. The parallels to Scorsese may not be coincidental. Page 30
The Opulent World of David O. Selznick. A visual feast of the man and his work.
The Films of Michael Powell: A Romantic Sensibility. An appreciation of film's gentleman poet, whose work has ranged from the fanciful "Red Shoes" and "Thief of Bagdad" to the daring "Peeping Tom." Page 47
Dialogue on Film: Joseph Losey. The expatriate director ("The Go-Between," "Accident," "Don Giovanni") discusses his many collaborations with Harold Pinter, teaching film , and the difficulties translating opera onto film. Page 53
A Question of Quality. What are the critical standards of television? Television is a medium whose critical standards are borrowed from other forms - film, theater, radio. Yet television is high-speed, high volume. How then can quality on television be assessed? A discussion of the issues. Page 61
The Network Gamble: Ratings or Prestige?. Are both ends played against the middle? Page 64
Explorations: Freudian Clips. The relationship between Freudian ideas and motion pictures dates back to their separate origins. Freud coined the term "psychoanalysis" the year Lumières' held their first public exhibition. Page 66
Books: Naming Names. An excerpt from Victor S. Navasky's new study of the effects of the blacklist on Hollywood. Page 69
AFI News. Page 76
American Film Classified Ads. Page 78
Periodicals. Page 80
Notable Advertisements.
Video Club of America. Page 1
Walt Disney Home Video. features an original rendering of Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice Page 11
The Magnetic Video Corporation. Horror releases ("Mad Monster Party," "Phantasm," "Alien," "Blood of the Vampire," "The Omen," "The Manitou") Page 18-19
Columbia Pictures Home Video. Page 25

Edition Notes

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New York, New York, USA
Series
Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Copyright Date
1980

Contributors

Writer
Ernest Lehman
Writer
Martin Mayer
Writer
David Thomson
Writer
Amy Greenfield
Writer
Thomas Wiener
Writer
Ronald Haver
Writer
Robert Sklar
Writer
Edwin Diamond
Writer
J. Hoberman
Writer
Victor S. Navasky
Writer
Patricia Bosworth
Contributor
Kim Tonthat
Senior Editor
Antonio Chemasi
Senior Editor
Victoria Venker
Senior Editor
Thomas Wiener
Assistant Editor
Peter Craig
Researcher
Martha Vaughan
Contributing Editor
Gary Arlen
Contributing Editor
Bruce Cook
Contributing Editor
J. Hoberman
Contributing Editor
Harlan Kennedy
Contributing Editor
Ernest Lehman
Contributing Editor
Patrick McGilligan
Contributing Editor
Martin Mayer
Consulting Editor
Hollis Alpert
Art Director
Victoria Valentine

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Magazine
Number of pages
80

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26204747M
OCLC/WorldCat
2246336
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B0086E05XO

Work Description

"American Film" is a magazine published by The American Film Institute from 1975-1992. 10 issues were published yearly, with 166 issues in total. Originally subtitled "The Journal of the Film and Television Arts" the highbrow magazine initially focused on film classics but the focus soon shifted to contemporary movies. Countless people associated with the film industry contributed articles and columns, including Francois Truffaut, Ernest Lehman, Leonard Maltin, Roger Ebert, Roger Greenspun, Larry McMurty, and others.

In addition to the information about movies and television, the journal offers an insightful view on the home video industry, chronicling the introductions of VHS, Beta, Videodisc and laserdisc and continuing through the VHS boom in the early '90s when the magazine folded. In October 1979, they introduced "The Video Scene," a multi-column section centered on home video, punctuated with ads and printed on a different paper stock. Ads for videotapes began to surface quickly during the run of the magazine and then exploded, with the first major ad being for The Video Club of America's release of "The Sound of Music" in the May 1979 issue.

AFI struggled in the publishing market so the magazine went through a vast array of changes over the years. Early issues were black-and-white, ad-free, with a 16-page card-stock centerfold for their "Dialogue on Film" column, which featured transcripts of Q&A discussions with film legends. Beginning with the April 1978 issue, the publishers switched to a cheaper paper stock. By 1978, they began to become overrun with advertisements and in December, they added color spreads, predominantly for noteworthy new films - though by the early 1980s they were publishing full-color issues. In 1988, the magazine was sold to BPI Communications, and the following year the entire format was changed to glossy, oversized issues. In 1992, the magazine abruptly ceased publication.

In April 2012, the magazine was revived as a monthly digital e-zine, which ran until October 2014, with a total of 31 issues.

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