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 #:
000255
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 28, 2022
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CLOSE UP member of the 44 Joint Stock Company". How are you going to get your members ? Only by extensive advertisment in every European country. Let the link be extended, and a twin company founded in America suggests itself at this point. But to resume on the question of securing membership. The first thing is to start a fund wherewith to advertise. Interested members of the public send their donations. Advertising is begun when the fund is large enough to permit extensive measures in every country. For this some thousands of pounds are necessary. Advertising is continued. Applications for membership begin to come in. Pre-advertisment launches the project. Afterwards details are entered into. Particulars of membership and the privileges and scope of membership clearly explained. As outline, the suggestion is that the directors shall be chosen by ballot, and the same with cameramen, scenarists, artists, etc. The performances of the company will not be open to the general public, but strictly for stockholders and, by special application, their friends. By this means censorship can be avoided. Seats will be paid for at each performance and at varying prices. Where it is impossible to have special theatres (for many members will live in scattered districts) it will be possible to rent them for one performance or two performances. The special theatres would run the films for a season each. Much advertising is done, and the membership increases. In the course of a few years it has mounted to double. Thus the income of the company is double, Out of this more films are produced and more theatres built. By this means a rival power 9