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 #:
000345
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 connection, people are not entertained by the undesirable man who always offers it for purposes of his own. People are not entertained by the stahvart hero who teaches the flighty heroine a lesson, nor by the astute female digger who gets her man. People are not entertained by the people who go abroad and order two gigolos and mashed in the Moulin Rouge. People are not entertained by the heroine's camiknickers. Their appearance always means that an irate husband is about to find her out. People are not entertained by the hero who says Let me explain." They know only too well that screen heroines never permit such things. People are not entertained by the hero w^ho mistakes the heroine's baby sister for her illegitimate offspring. People are not entertained by the heroine who had to sin but didn't want to, and has such a tough time hushing it up from the gent who finds out in reel four, and relents in reel six. People are not entertained by the Poor Little Old Fashioned Pal o' Mine. Not even in talkie (or single) version. People are not entertained by the heroine who has to run up the lamp-lit street in the rain because someone has tried to get fresh with her. People are not entertained by the struggles that go on between ladies in evening dress, and gents in deserted houses, nor particularly by the nick-of-time struggles. These latter are between good young men, and bad middle-aged ones. They always knock over everything, and the good man always wins, and bears off the fainting form of his still untainted loved-one. 7