Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000373 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 #:
000373
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 Mechanics of the Brain. This film has been made by Pudowkin in collaboration with Professor Pavlov, upon Pavlov's experiments on the conditioned reflexes. It is Pudowkin's second film, and (Close Up was informed) no copy exists outside Russia except for one in Berlin w^ith Russian sub-titles only. Professor Pavlov's researches into the physiology of the brain have been familiar to doctors and students throughout Europe for over a quarter of a century. A translation of his book Conditional Reflexes was published in 1927 by the Oxford University Press, price 28s. For those who find it hard to reconcile his achievements with an apparent disregard of modern discoveries in psychology, the excellent review of Conditional Reflexes by Dr. Ernest Jones, in the July issue of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis is to be commended.* The film itself has been shown throughout Russia in large towns and out-of-the-way villages, at prices varying from one penny to sixpence a head, as part of an educational programme to make modern scientific research a part of everyone^s knowledge. It begins with scenes of animals in a zoo. These are followed by views of boys bathing and by some experiments upon a frog. * The clearest, most concise account has been given by Dr. Gantt in the British Medical Journal for July llth^ 1927. 27