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 #:
000147
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 COMMENT AND REVIEW Here is a much more important point than it sounds. Is it essential that chocolate manufacturers wrap their boxes in all those cellophane papers ? One knows that people Uke to make the cinema a light-refreshment lounge, but how often at some arresting or poignant mioment, someone beside you starts peeling her chocolate box ! First of all air-proof paper, which fumbled at in the dark takes fully a minute to tear off, and crumple in one's hand, and roll under the seat in front ; then the box lid and its reluctant severing, carrying in wake vast overflowings of fancy trimmings ; then more translucent paper covering fancy paper mats, then shredded paper, and bits of cardboard, and folded paper, and crinkly containers, and more often than not another VvTapping round the chocolate itself. In all, a five to eight minute operation, and guaranteed, one feels, to be as noisy as specially constructed papers can miake it. Well, if it is hygiene, after all is it hygiene ? And isn't it rather overdoing things ? Anyhow, there must be all sorts of papers less noisy, and quite as suitable. Moreover, by some inevitable mass self-consciousness, the peehng of one box will remind dozens of ladies and gentlemen of the unopened boxes lying on their laps, and one's attention is swept away in the sudden hurricane that drowns 63