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 #:
000403
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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Contents of Vol. X A Film Actor. Elizabeth Coxhead An American Tragedy. S. M. Eisenstein Beginning of the Year in Germany. A. Kraszna-Krausz Cinema Psychology. Clifford Howard Cinematography With Tears. S. M. Eisenstein Continuous Performance. Dorothy Richardson Fan Males. Robert Herring Fiction or Nature. Marianne Moore . . Film Morals. Clifford Howard. . Films and Values. Oswell Blakeston . . Japan as Seen in Films. Y. Ogino Japanese Film Problems. Y. Ogino Letter Concerning Thunder Over Mexico. Upton Sinclair Lot in Sodom. Marianne Moore Lot in Sodom. Herman G. Weinberg Manifesto of Experimental Cinema Manifesto on the Documentary Film. Oswell Blakeston New Film by Deslaw. Oswell Blakeston and J. Burford Note on Five Bruguiere Photographs. Kenneth Macpherson Open Letter Concerning Thunder Over Mexico. A. B. Maugard Photographs in Vienna. Trude Weiss Portugal. Alves Costa. Prague Castle and Other Czech Shorts. Karel Santar Pseudomorphic Film, Number One. Oswell Blakeston Pseudomorphic Film, Number Two. Oswell Blakeston Published Scenarios. Roger Burford . . . . . . . . . . Really Isn't True. Oswell Blakeston and Roger Burford Scottsboro. Nancy Cunard Something New in the Motion Picture Theatre. Frances Blake Storm Over Hollywood. Clifford Howard Symphonic Cinema. Clifford Howard . . Talkie Diseases of French Cinema. J. Lenauer . . . . Teaching Music by the Abstract Film. Oswell Blakeston The Actor's Work. V. I. Pudovkin The Emperor Jones. Herman Weinberg The Foreign Language Film in the United States. Herman Weinberg The Historical Inception of Stage and Film. Pennethorne Hughes The Making of the Russian Star. Marie Seton The Nature of Film Material. Robert A. Fairthorne The Pabst Arrival. Frank Daugherty . . The Primeval Age of Cinema. Trude Weiss The Travelling Camera. Erno Metzner The Year of the Eclipse. H. A. Potamkin Three Paris Films. Jean Lenauer . . .... Towards A Co-operative Cinema. E. Coxhead Turkish Prelude. Marie Seton Two Documentaries. Ralph Bond What Shall You Do In The War ? Bryher Why War ? Einstein and Freud, International Institute of Intellectual operation, H.A.M. 379