TITLE: American Film
["Journal of the Film and Television Arts" -- Published by the American Film Institute (AFI) -- Hard-to-find magazine!]
ISSUE DATE: December 1984; Vol. X, No. 3
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: Gregory Hines in The Cotton Club. Photo by Theo Westenberger 1984 Orion Pictures.

FEATURES:
Tapped for Stardom by Barbara Graustark -- Gregory Hines, the toast of Broadway, steps into the Hollywood spotlight.

Les Enfants Terribles by Michel Ciment -- Twenty-five years later, there are still some ripples left in the New Wave.

Dreamscapes by Hal Hinson -- For David Lynch, the director of Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, and now Dune, decay is seductive and the bizarre commonplace.

This Pen for Hire by Bill Kelley -- Elmore Leonard writes books. Books that get turned into movies. Movies like Hombre, or the new Burt Reynolds thriller, Stick. He also writes scripts. Some work out. Some don't.

All Dressed Up With No Place to Go by Irene Wolt -- The typical Hollywood director is brash, energetic, forceful . .. and male. Now, with the support of the Directors Guild, women are set to crash the stag party.

Only the Strong Survive by Susan Linfield -- Independent distributors are being bypassed as their market changes. Who will make it over the long haul?.

Dialogue on Film: Akio Morita -- Sony's chief talks about the future of global television, electronic film production, and how his company got its name.
VIDEOPHILE:.
Diversity Nipped in the Bud by Henry Geller -- Some parting shots from Everett Parker, a thorn in the side of media moguls.
Collector's Choice: The Children's Hours by Keith Bunin -- A thirteen-year-old's Christmas list of films on cassette.
DEPARTMENTS.
Letters.
Newsreel.
Behind the Scenes: Dancing in the Dark by Tom McDonough -- An embroidered account of high tech and low comedy on the set of Falling in Love.
Flashback: The Blind Leading the Blind by Karl Brown -- While directing his first sound film, this veteran of the silent era got some help from an unexpected source.
Independents.
Books -- Concepts in Film Theory and Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema, reviewed by J. Haberman.
Trailers.
From the Director by Jean Firstenberg.


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