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 #:
000329
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 tions, and the entirely meretricious character is drawn with exactitude and good balance. Warwick Ward has an unfortunate part. He is very good in it, which may seem rather two edged praise, but the truth is he has a technique worthy of better material. We know people like this do exist, cheap and quite unpleasant philanderers, but they are so painfully uninteresting, though you would not think it to go to the movies. The photography, the lighting are good, and the technique brisk and convincing. But here is the proof that good treatment of a theme is not enough. Robison is capable of first class work. But even his ingenuity cannot hold our interest in a theme which was pounded to death quite five years ago. However, see Looping the Loop if it comes your way for its technique and its characterisation. Mr. Anthony Asquith is making a new German-English film for Terra, entitled The Road to Happiness (Die Fahrt ins Gluck). Fritz Wendhausen who made Out of the Mist is assisting. Mady Christians will take the leading part. Emelka has started a new Carl Grune film, Waterloo. The Reiber Brothers (Ludwig and Willy) are in charge of the technical details and the sets, and Fritz Arno Wagner will photograph. THE CHINESE SYSTEM OF PHYSICAL CULTURE, At the Jungfernsee, one of the many lakes near Berlin, Dr. Nikolau Kaufmann is producing an educational film on 77