Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000110 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 #:
000110
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 HOLLYWOOD NOTES HoUwood now has its little film theatre — Filmarte. Like the Cameo, of NewYork, and the Studio des Ursulines, of Paris, Filmarte is dedicated to the showing of the exceptional, the artistic, the experimental in celluloid production, as well as the reviving of films of yesteryear. The reception accorded its initial program augurs well for its success. The Swedish film, The Golden Clon'n, with Gosta Ekman, was its chief feature ; while Robert Florey's futuristic fantasy, The Love of Zero, notable alike for its economj^ in cost of production and its bizarre treatment, provided the special Holh^vood novelty. : The promoter and presiding genius of Filmarte is a young woman, Miss Regge Doran, who brings to her position as director of the theatre an extensive managerial experience, in addition to livety enthusiasm and enterprise. Filmarte is Holh^vood's third attempt to establish an atheneum of this character. Whether the previous attempts failed =because of a then unappreciative provincialism or because of ultra-sophistication in matters cinematic, is a question difficult to determine. At all events, the present venture has got off to a good start and its future appears assured. ★ The various producing companies have completed their schedules for the coming twelve months, and the resulting fi 74