Close Up (Jul-Nov 1927)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Nov 1927
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000107
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Global Cinema, Switzerland, and Early Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
As an active film magazine, CLOSE UP lasted only a short time, from 1927 to 1933. Yet the legacy of this English-language periodical, which was published in Switzerland, continues to matter. Edited by Bryher and her husband Kenneth Macpherson, CLOSE UP became THE magazine for energetic debates about the nature of cinema and manifestos imagining new forms of filmmaking and spectatorship. The magazine published articles by filmmakers, such as Sergei Eisenstein, and female literary modernists, such as H.D. and Gertrude Stein. As film scholar Anne Friedberg explains in the anthology CLOSE-UP, 1927-1933: CINEMA & MODERNISM, 'CLOSE UP became the model for a certain type of writing about film -- writing that was theoretically astute, politically incisive, critical of films that were simply 'entertainment.' For six and a half years, CLOSE UP maintained a forum for a broad variety of ideas about the cinema; it never advocated a single direction of development, but rather posed alternatives to existing modes of production, consumption, and film style.' Like Friedberg's own writing, CLOSE UP continues to be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of film and media theory. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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CLOSE UP in advance of extreme kindness. Now that he is well and strong and knowing their extreme anxiety he was well and strong knowing her extreme anxiety. Please direct that she is not to say that she is not to say Bertha or Bessie. Please direct that she is not to say not Bertha. Please to direct. Will you give this to your fathers. It is natural without children natural. Hesitating and certainly. Between that and pointing to his service later they make this. They didn't except that Hannah would be in it. They didn't expect that he would seem to be sat upon a single piece of cardboard box. It is very irresponsible to be a little neglected and then comes the question of pulling. One of his brothers the man was descending by his brother. They thought nothing of it naturally one would have objected. They seemed searchful. It gives you some arrangement you see. No I don't think so. He says that selfish selling is more likely than selfish bewil•dering. I do not care to remember what I do not feather. I do not remember whether a flavour is farther. I do not remember whether cork tins are believed to be older. I do not care to mention any other. I do not care to bewilder. I do not care to sell her. I do not care to be a locked cellar. I do not care to be cheerier. 27