Close Up (Mar-Dec 1933)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Mar-Dec 1933
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000378
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:
November 07, 2023
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354 CLOSE UP The " Kiyomizu " Temple from "Japan in Four Seasons," a production by the Board of Tourist Industry. Le Temple de Kiyomizu, du film " he Japon en quatre saisons "production du Cornell d'industrie touristique. I will give you some instances. Yoshihiko Tamura, who has been responsible these past few years for the production of Japanese versions of the Paramount Pictures, spoke recently over the radio about the news reels he has seen in a New York theatre. One of them offers some scenes of a Japanese military review attended by the Emperor. The news reel announcer interprets that the Emperor stirs up the morale of the troops going to the front in Manchuria. Yoshihiko Tamura reproached those who dared to make such an irresponsible interpretation. Another scene offers a country place where men and boys are enjoying kite-flying — a scene that aroused in this spectator a sense of nostalgia for his homeland. But he was quite suddenly aroused from his yearning by the shot that depicted with magnificent and exaggerating detail of close up, a man who was making water outdoors and in public and before the camera. Yoshihiko Tamura ended his broadcasting with the pronouncement of necessity for national control over the films to be exported. Kisao Uchida who is an assistant editor of the Kinema Jumpo and very conversant with European, especially French films, enumerates in his correspondence with the magazine some Japanese shorts he has seen in Europe and America and has been so ashamed that he could hardly sit through the performance ; for instance : one shows the Nikko Shrine visited by many of ignorant, old men and women who, tucking up the skirts, putting on Geta