Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000292 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 #:
000292
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 crying a letter has come. They run indoors, wife, mistress, Anna, the child. Wassily has the letter. News of Ivan. Terror becomes joy, he is returning. They bow down and cross themselves. They turn on Anna: Now, you with your brat, what will he say now he will find out ? We are covered in shame.'' They moan. The mother screams, alas that my son should return to this." Anna is driven forth, broken by their violence. She takes the child with her. Wassilissa sees her from the steps of the Home, crying and wretched. They sit together on the steps. Do not worrv, Wassilissa comforts her, directly the home is finished there will be a place for your child. The vSpring Festival. Swings, roundabouts, dancing, merrymaking. Anna, the mistress, the wife, are all getting ready in their festival clothes. They sweep out, each tossing her head at the suffering girl. Anna plaiting her hair, goes to the window and sees Ivan returning. Panic overtakes her, she runs away and hides herself in her room. The family come running to Ivan. Where is Anna? The frozen silence is broken by the mother. She has brought shame upon the house. Their hatred is triumphant, and tears of self pity stream down their cheeks. Poor Ivan, poor, poor Ivan. The shocked youth finds Anna in her room, half-dressed, terrified and joyous and tragic. There indeed is the child. Here, too, his posturing is new. In his rejection of Anna he gives himself to his family, becomes one with their baseness. War-acquired. War has not enobled, it hsiS debased the men. The festival is at its height. Maidens throw wreaths into the water — omens for their future. Unseen by the merry 48