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An edition of American Film (1975)

American Film, Volume VII, Number 5

March 1982

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Table of Contents

The Editing Room. Page 5
Letters. Page 6
Newsreel.
Who Were Those Eyewitnesses in "Reds?". If Warren won't tell, we will. Page 8
Leave it to Diva. An unlikely French hit. Page 10
16mm Distributors Taking a Beating. Videotape kills an industry. Page 10
Dialogue on Film: Daniel Melnick. The successful producer discusses running a studio, working as an independent, and his new film, "Making Love." Page 13
Explorations: The Short Happy Life of the Charles. For a few short years, one theater on New York's Lower East Side became the cradle of a cultural revolution. Page 22
The Video Scene. Developments in programming and technology affecting the home viewer.
The Raymond Tapes. After nearly a decade of groundbreaking work in documentary television, Alan and Susan Raymond find themselves at a creative crossroads. Page 25
Reader's Guide to Video Magazines. Confused by the bewildering array of new titles? Here's help. Page 30
Comment: How Soaps Whitewash Blacks. In the lurid world of daytime drama, blacks are imprisoned in a ghetto of good intentions. Page 36
In Search of The Missing. An American casualty of the Chilean coup is the subject of Costa-Gavras's latest work. It is the most personal of his political films. Page 39
America's Love Affair with Frank Capra. The films of this year's Life Achievement Award winner kept alive the hope of a generation mired in the Depression. Four decades later, they still speak - to a new generation of audiences. Page 46
Dressed to Kill. At the box office, that is. Under increasing pressure, horror film producers are cleaning up their act. Page 52
Special Report. Cableporn Page 57
Turning on Television. Playboy and Penthouse court viewers. Page 58
Gainesville Fights Back. What happened when "adult" cable came to town. Page 59
Women and Pornography. Combat in the video zone. Page 62
Canadian Film: Burnout in the Great White North. How success spoiled Canada's once-promising film industry. Page 67
Books. Reviews. Page 72
Hollywood Princes and Proles. "The Hollywood Writers' Wars" by Nancy Lynn Schwartz; "Hollywood Red: The Autobiography of Lester Cole;" and "Moving Picture: Memories of a Hollywood Prince" by Budd Schulburg Page 72
American Film Classified Ads. Page 82
AFI Events Around the Country. Page 85
Trailers. A brief look at upcoming movies (Deathtrap, Diner, Victor/Victoria, Soup for One, Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip, I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, I Ought to Be in Pictures) Page 86
From the Director. Not All Film History is on Celluloid. Page 88
Notable Advertisements.
Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment. "The Hits Are Here" (And Justice for All, Stir Crazy, Tess, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Blue Lagoon, Seems Like Old Times, The Deep, Midnight Express, etc.). Inner Cover.
TDK. Super Avilyn videotape Page 2
Thorn EMI Video. It's a new picture since Thorn EMI went video (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) Page 4
Vestron Video. For the finest movies and entertainments (Fort Apache, The Cannonball Run, Richard Pryor Live in Concert, Till Marriage Do Us Part, Lenny Bruce: Performance Film, Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps) Page 11
Scotch. 3M videocassettes Page 12
Columbia Pictures. Our warmest congratulations to the CBS television network Page 21
Walt Disney Home Video. Share a Good Story. (Winnie the Pooh) Page 23
Toshiba. IK-1900 video camera Page 24
20th Century Fox Video. Seven classic Marilyn Monroe movies on videocassette. Page 33
MCA Videocassettes, Inc. Kick off the new year with the hottest entertainment in town. (High Plains Drifter; Raggedy Man; Spider-Woman; The Amazing Spider-Man; Olivia Newton-John: Physical; Continental Divide) Page 44-45
Cinefex Magazine. Page 55
Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine. Page 73

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New York, USA
Series
Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Copyright Date
1982

Contributors

Editor
Peter Biskind
Writer
Peter Biskind
Writer
Jonathan Rosenbaum
interviewee
Daniel Melnick
Writer
J. Hoberman
Writer
Eric Breitbart
Writer
Art Levine
Writer
Sherry Johnson
Writer
Michael Wood
Writer
Jeanine Basinger
Writer
Robert E. Kapsis
Writer
Kenneth R. Clark
Writer
Edison McIntyre
Writer
Jean Callahan
Writer
Jay Scott
Writer
Victor S. Navasky
Writer
Renee Hooley
Writer
Jean Firstenberg
Senior Editor
Antonio Chemasi
Senior Editor
Jean Callahan
Senior Editor
Thomas Wiener
Associate Editor
Peter Craig
Consulting Editor
Hollis Alpert
Publisher
Tod Herbers

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Format
Magazine
Number of pages
88

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OL26205950M
OCLC/WorldCat
2246336
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B002B92D4Y

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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