Close Up (Jan-Jun 1928)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jan-Jun 1928
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000208
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Early Cinema, Switzerland, 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 28, 2022
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CLOSE UP would be chosen by the average censor) that we would willingly forbid to youth. Those full of sentimentality and those with a psychology that inexperience might think was true and that was really false to everything in life. But great films are no more to be forbidden than great books or a /isit to a museum and what of the many excellent documentary or travel films that do so much now to wTiden childrens' lives ? It is the traditional attitude of the old to the young, of the established to the new that has come out in this report. The same attitude that wearies a child of French by making it read Racine before it has mastered its verbs or that wearies it with the influence of climate on rainfall before it is aware of the different countries even of Europe. Instead of forbidding the cinema we should insist that wherever possible and as a part of education, the child should see a film each week. An increasing standard of education is going to be demanded for the whole civilized world. As day cannot be expanded the only means to make this possible is to use the cinema more and more widely in education. ★ NOTICES COLD NIGHT IN MUNICH My belief in St. Petrus of Wetterdingen after having strongly diminished last summer has again increased these latter days. 72