Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000154 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 #:
000154
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 L P FILMS FOR CHILDRExN For the first time in questions of cinematography, I am afraid. I have often been angry, but as Miss Loos has said, you can't keep a good fihn down " — Joyless Street is being revived, Jeanne Ney was cheered in London, and quite a lot of people here walked out on Rin-tin-tin. But one cannot pick up a trade paper in any language w^ithout finding that a lot of societies of health, education and moral welfare have got together to discuss exactly what films they will permit to be shown to the young. And one knows so well what they will choose. A short time ago a film was shown here that w-as endorsed by all possible educational societies. Parents were enjoined, almost sumuK^ned to send their children. It was about the glories of scouting. And it was about as foolish a piece of work as any to date encountered. The hero, rather than break his word, allowed every other person in the film to risk their life and their happiness. But because he had not broken his word or his scout pole, or something equally dogmatic, he was a HERO. And children were to copv him. This is the kind of thing that makes me fear for the future. Children, naturallv, are blindlv obedient. What they need to be taught is self-reliance and discrimination. To know when a thing is right and w^hen it isn't. There is no set road 16