Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000247 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 #:
000247
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 When it has completed its circuit it starts out again with a new programme. The fixed price for peasants is the equivalent of from one penny to twopence admission. Special low rental rates are given to these cinemas, determined by the economic standard of the districts toured. If the film— which is always of some sociological importance — is shown to a semi-literate audience, an explanation and reason is given by one of the educated peasants. In many cases a precis of the film, together with an outline of its application to daily life is given prior to its showing. In addition to the travelling cinemas there are the permanent cinemas in the larger villages, devoted to more highly developed cultural work. The growth of these can be seen from the following 'figures : — 1925 50 1926 114 1927 ... 232 1928 408 For workers and soldiers of the Red Army there exist in the RSFSR altogether 2,562 cinemas. These are worked on the same principles as those applied in the working of the village cinemas. There is by this means a public of 35,000,000 film-goers, composed of town and country workers. The cinema is the most popular of all arts. M. Ozep, who made The Yellow Passport (Der Gelbe Pass) informed me that no attention is paid ever to any problem in connection with a film until the makers are quite satisfied that it is right artistically. When they are perfectly satisfied with it as a work of art, then and then only, they 11