An edition of American Film (1975)

American Film, Volume VIII, Number 2

November 1982

by American Film Institute

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An edition of American Film (1975)

American Film, Volume VIII, Number 2

November 1982

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01 American Film, Volume VIII, Number 2: November 1982 November 1982, American Film Institute Magazine in English	aaaa Read Listen Libraries near you: WorldCat
02 American Film, Volume VII, Number 9: July-August 1982 July 1982, American Film Institute Magazine in English	bbbb Read Listen Libraries near you: WorldCat
03 American Film, Volume VI, Number 3: December 1980 December 1980, American Film Institute Magazine in English	bbbb Read Listen Libraries near you: WorldCat
04 American Film, Volume II, Number 1: October 1976 October 1976, American Film Institute Magazine in English	bbbb Read Listen Libraries near you: WorldCat
05 American Film, Volume 1, Number 4: February 1976 February 1976, American Film Institute Magazine in English	bbbb Read Listen Libraries near you: WorldCat
06 American Film, Volume 1, Number 9: July-August 1976 July 1976, American Film Institute Magazine in English	bbbb Read Listen Libraries near you: WorldCat
07 American Film, Volume II, Number 3: December 1976-January 1977 December 1976, American Film Institute Magazine in English	bbbb Read Listen Libraries near you: WorldCat
08 American Film, Volume 1, Number 7: May 1976 May 1976, American Film Institute Magazine in English	bbbb Read Listen Libraries near you: WorldCat
09 American Film, Volume 1, Number 5: March 1976 March 1976, American Film Institute Magazine in English	bbbb Read Listen Libraries near you: WorldCat
10 American Film, Volume 1, Number 3: December 1975 December 1975, American Film Institute Magazine in English	bbbb Read Listen Libraries near you: WorldCat

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The Editing Room. Page 6 Letters. Page 8 Newsreel. Short news stories Page 10

Everybody's Gone Filming. Beach films are back.

CINE at Twenty-Five. The Council on Nontheatrical Events

Dear Filmgoer. Direct-mail movie marketing

Free on a Match. Product placement and placement products

Rating Ratings. PG-13 in the works

Dialogue on Film: Dyan Cannon. Coming off good notices for "Deathtrap" and "Author! Author!," the actress pauses to discuss her work as a director. Page 18

VideoFile.

Video Boom Busts Retailers. Cassettes are selling like hotcakes, but while studios waffle, video stores look for milk and honey. Page 25 Studios Demand Rent Control. Studios attempt to market tapes for rental only. Page 27 Scanlines. Page 33 Videography. Page 35 How Sweet It Was. 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. Page 38 Prairie Film Companion. 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. Page 46 History of the (Film) World, Part II. 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. Page 52 Letter from Paris: Mitterrand's Medialand. Has the election of a Socialist president brought a cultural revolution to French television? Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. Page 58 Marty. Martin Scorsese is hard at work on his new film, "The King of Comedy," starring Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis. Page 66 Paul Zimmerman: "Screenwriting Is Like the Priesthood". Page 72 Books. "Hitler," a Script from Germany Page 76 Trailers. Brief looks at "Still of the Night," "First Blood," "Brimstone and Treacle," "Night of the Shooting Stars," "Veronika Voss," & "National Lampoon's Class Reunion." Page 93 November Calendar for AFI Members. Page 94 From the Director. What Price Quality? Page 96

Notable Advertisements.

HBO. Celebrating a Decade of Innovation (Milton Berle photo) Page 7 RCA. Videodiscs, assorted Page 9

Audi. Page 10-11

Fuji. Super High Grade Videotapes Page 19 Sanyo. VCR 4000 Video Recorder Page 21

Thorn EMI Video. Cannes Film Festival Contest Page 22-23

Sony. Dynamicron videotapes Page 24 Kodak. Eastman film Page 29

MCA Video. 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) Page 30-31

Walt Disney Home Video. A Walt Disney Christmas Page 32

Maxell. HGX Videotape Page 50-51

CBS Fox Video. Star Wars Page 74-75

Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment. 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

Edition Notes

Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Copyright Date: 1982

Contributors

Editor: Peter Biskind
Writer: John Kehoe
Writer: Amanda Spake
Writer: Douglass K. Daniel
interviewee: Dyan Cannon
Writer: Howard Polskin
Writer: Seth Goldstein
Writer: Toby Thompson
Writer: Phil Anderson
Writer: Douglas Gomery
Writer: Marcel Ophuls
Writer: Carrie Rickey
interviewee: Paul Zimmerman
Writer: J. Hoberman
Writer: Jean Firstenberg
Senior Editor: Antonio Chemasi
Senior Editor: Jean Callahan
Senior Editor: Thomas Wiener
Associate Editor: Peter Craig
Art Director: Victoria Valentine
Publisher: Tod Herbers

The Physical Object

Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 96

ID Numbers

Open Library: OL26207035M
Internet Archive: AmericanFilm198211
OCLC/WorldCat: 2246336
Amazon ID (ASIN): B003NTMTLS

Work Description

"American Film" is a magazine published by The American Film Institute from 1975-1992. 10 issues were published yearly (January and August were skipped), with 166 issues in total. Subtitled "The Journal of the Film and Television Arts" the magazine was noted for having insightful information on Hollywood classics.

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, just a few years short of the DVD era.

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 with a 16-page card-stock centerfold for their "Dialogue on Film" column, which featured transcripts of discussions with film legends. Beginning with the April 1978 issue, the publishers switched to a cheaper paper stock. In the early 1980s, they began publishing full-color issues, and in 1989 the entire format was changed to glossy, oversized magazines.

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American Film, Volume VIII, Number 2

November 1982

by American Film Institute