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 #:
000210
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 not German, is remarking, "These Germans over-do things. . . look at Faust now. . .and this is just as morbid." Another language resembling only in bare particulars that one (is it the same language ?) is remarking, "gee, whj^ don't they have more live-stuff these days. Though they did advertise Doug Fairbanks last week." Languages filter into me, languages and the music fanfaring away at some familiar sideshow rate and "the show is over" is indicated by a sudden, crude blare of extravagant electricity. "Say — you can see electricity's cheap here." Languages. . .languages. . .dead languages, living languages. A small voice, a wee voice that has something in common with all these voices yet differs intrinsically from all these voices, will whisper there within me. "You see I was right. You see it will come. In spite of 'Gee' and *Doug Fairbanks' and 'we must have something cheerful', it must come soon : a universal language, a universal art open alike to the pleb and the initiate." H. D. MIND-GROWTH OR MIND-MECHANIZATION ? THE CINEMA IN EDUCATION An interesting viewpoint which, though not altogether in accordance with our own beliefs, yet states one side of the educational question 44