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 #:
000108
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Switzerland, Early Cinema, and Global 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 I say I do know Bessie. Bessie resembles Bertha. Paula resembles Bessie. Bessie resembles Bertha Bessie resembles Bertha. I do not offer to determine whether Paula and Bertha and Bessie are distinctly separate. It is especially getting bigger. It is especially slighter. Why is there a change in water colour. Water is coloured by the sudden departure of ^all the interested readers of a newspaper. I meant to say that it is necessary to spill all there is where there is and I say that I incline to believe that more that the more often I see it everjrwhere the more often. She'd be just lonesome v/hich would show that the same water is not behind the mountains. I have heard it mentioned. I expect to get a recommendation and I will not say it is for suggestions. You are down to nineteen. The same. How is Bessie this morning. Please say a baby. I do not leave the same all day and I do not share unless you are coming to caress country. I do not like having said that I do not see why an excuse is preferable. I do not like the sound of spreading. I do not like the meaning of the late carpet. I do not believe in wretches. I do not like whispers. I do love to say such very hurried papers. I do mean to' believe that soldiers order pearls. I do mean to say that it was a tumbler. I am getting rather anxious. Really I am getting rather anxious. 28