TITLE: American Film
["Journal of the Film and Television Arts" -- Published by the American Film Institute (AFI) -- Hard-to-find magazine!]
ISSUE DATE: June 1981; Volume VI Number 8
CONDITION: Standard magazine size, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

IN THIS ISSUE:
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COVER: Jon Alpert's Video Journalism. Alpert with Keiko Tsuno, his wife and collaborator. Photo by Maureen Lambray.

FEATURES:
Boston: A New Hub for Filmmakers . . . Gerald Peary . . . A spirit of independence binds the growing film community along the Charles River.

Memories of a Texas Childhood . . . Mike Greco . . . Austin screenwriter Bill Wittliff successfully evokes the people and places he knows best.

The Real Crisis in American Films . . . David Thomson . . . Once again the contrary forces of commerce and art are clashing--perhaps, says this observer, for the last time.

Ray Harryhausen: Monsters Great and Small . . . John Culhane . . . The master of three-dimensional animation looks to the heavens for inspiration on his latest film, Clash of the Titans.

Jon Alpert's Video Journalism: Talking to the People . . . J. Hoberman . . . This fiercely independent videomaker has it both ways: a "Today" show regular and a community organizer.

Dialogue on Film . . . Richard Rush . . . The director of The Stunt Man discusses his nine-year struggle to make the film, his low-budget days, the art of screenwriting, and Peter O'Toole.

DEPARTMENTS:.
Letters.
Lehman at Large . . . Ernest Lehman . . . The film critic who despised films.
Newsreel . . . Ida Lupino's lost film; Steven Spielberg's new film; how cable catches criminals; Chaplin's darker side.
About Television . . . Martin Mayer . . . How a crisis unnerved the networks.
BOOKS:.
Television Today: A Close-Up View. Readings From TV Guide edited by Barry Cole. . . . Ronald Haver.
From Scarf ace to Scarlett: American Films in the 1930s by Roger Dooley.
From the Director . . . Jean Firstenburg.


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