Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000354 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 #:
000354
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 Prussian Parliament noteworthy sittings were held. In the decorated apartments of the Zoo and the KroU Opera-house — Berlin's leading centres for large social gatherings — representative gala evenings were held. There were motor and steam-boat excursions to all the principal places of interest in and near the capital. Half a day was spent in the Ufa studios at Neu-Babelsburg. Proceedings terminated with a festival in Luna Park. In the midst of such festivities, so much organisation, so many applauded speeches, it was not easy to remain unmoved. Enthusiasm is infectious. When between whiles one heard a few reasonable words, one was apt to imagine that reasonable activities were actually afoot. But from the summoning of a Congress to its results is a long step. Between its decisions and their operation lies a wide highway that is sometimes also an endless one. You have perhaps heard what has become of the resolutions passed by the Paris Congress in 1926 ? Amongst these were some quite useful suggestions, requiring only to be carried into effect. By the national unions, perhaps, or by individual governments, in any case by the then existing associations. In 1926 nothing was done. In 1928, we are assured, it is to be otherwise. And in order that an executive body should be available the International Federation of Cinema-owners was brought into being. So we have yet another association. Its founding was contrived without undue complications. With the help of the previously prepared French scheme, provisional statutes were formulated. The presidency and bureau-work were given over to the Imperial Union of German 16