Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1928
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000288
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 volley of advice. Wassily and his son wade ashore, the cart unharmed. Anna, a young girl, light-hearted with Spring, comes from her cottage. She meets Ivan and the father, both of w^hom drive on their w^ay, their thoughts occupied w^ith Anna's young beauty. In an orchard Wassilissa, Wassily's daughter meets her lover, the young smith. They are hidden in dense blossom, but not so hidden that Wassily driving past does not perceive them. Thus, over the morose meal, the family, father, mother, mistress, child, and son await Wassilissa. Ivan's thoughts are dreamily with Anna, his soup spoon dipping in the community dish rests there, and a happy smile reveals his dreamy abstraction. Wassily, profoundly irritated, hits him sharply on the head with the back of his own spoon, and the surprised youth is even more surprised by a spoonful of hot soup dashed in his face. Wake up, blockhead, it's time you were getting married." Wassilissa hurries in full of high spirits. The stony silence of her family show^s her that they know. Her father's insults and threats fall upon her and she leaves the table. Anna and Ivan marry. The villagers are already whispering that the old man has manoeuvred this in order that he can have Anna for himself. The wedding feast is full of gaiety and dancing, and the room grow hotter and hotter. The young bride and groom sits mopping exhausted faces. Wassilv goes and seats himself beside them, his light caress of the bride's hand has a triumph that does not escape the swift eye of his mistress. Wassilissa and the smith go out to the quiet shelter of the barn. Wassilv finds them there and bursts into fury. You 44