Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000107 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1928
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000107
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:
July 25, 2024
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CLOSE UP The End of St. Petersbourg, Pudowkin's wonderful epic of the Russian Revolution, has had a great success in Xew York. It will be remembered that this film, together with Mother .and Ten Days that Shook the World were taken back by Arthur Hammerstein. It is just as well to balance the sugar coated pro-Imperialist, "Russians are fiends" attitude with a statement of fact, no matter what the political feelings of the audience. PRODUCTION LIST FOR TERRA FILIYI DAS PRODUKTIONS — & VERLEIK — PROGRAMM DER TERRA Saison 1928/29 Direcktor Morawsky hat fur die Saison 1928-29 ein umiangreiches Produktions-und Verleih-Programm ausgearbeitet, das 20 Filme umfasst. Es ist ein Programm der Xamen, ein Programm der Oualitat. Autoren von Weltruf, die erfolgreichsten Regisseure, und die beliebtesten Darsteller bilden ein Arbeits-Kollektiv so hohen Ranges, dass der Terra nicht nur eine Erfolg-Saison in Deutschland sicher ist, sondem auch ■ein starker Absatz der Terra-Filme im Ausland zu gewartigen steht. Eine grosse Unterstiitzung wird hierbei die Auswahl der Sujets bieten, die dem Produktionsprogramm Zugkraft und Abwechslung verleihen. Von den Themen, die im Programm der Terra erscheinen, sind besonders interessant :