Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000111 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 #:
000111
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 VP gures are of interest. A total of eight hundred pictures will be made in Hollywood during the 1928-29 fiscal year. These productions will involve a cost of one hundred and fifteen million dollars and will call for the emplo3niient of twentyfive thousand persons. The combined payroll will not be less than a million and a half, a week. Together the different producing companies will spend close to seventy millions in advertising. All available mediums will be used for this purpose, including radio. For a number of years such advertising as was done in the magazines was confined to trade journals devoted to the interest of exhibitors ; but now, in addition, the public is being directly reached by regular and extensive advertisment^ in the leading popular w^eeklies. All in all, Holh^vood looks forward to a busy year. With a now total investment in the picture industrj^ of one billion one hundred and twentyfive million dollars, it cannot indeed afford to be other than busy if it is to pay dividends on this enormous capital. * Director Murnau will divide his summer w^ork between Alaska and Kansas. Scenes in one of his forthcoming pictures call for arctic locations, while the harvest fields of the prairies are the required mise-en-scene of another — Our Daily Bread. Going afield for locations is perhaps unavoidable in the case «of these two prospective pictures ; but studios, in their present 75