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 #:
000403
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 BOOK REVIEWS DER GEZEICHNETE FILM (CARTOON FILMS). Dr. Konrad Wolter. Rm. 12. KINOMATOGRAPHISCHE PROJEKTION (KINEMATOGRAPHIC PROJECTION). Herr Joachim (Wilhelm Knapp ; Halle-an-der-Saale, Germany). The strength of the film Hes in its youth, its lawlessness. Thence proceeds the compelling power that draws us all within its enchantment. Thence also its defects. Shadowy elements, failing lamentably in other spheres, have been allowed to break in upon this free territory and operate at large, regardless and irresponsible, unencumbered by knowledge. Hence the evil reputation of the film to date. And we should therefore be grateful to those who have made it their serious aim to treat all questions that can be systematised, thereby serving as pathfinders in the thicket where so many amateurs are astray. Der Gezeichnete Film is, as its author tells us in a preface, a translation, amplified by the addition of his personal knowledge, of the American Animated Cartoons of E. G. Lutz. It is a book that makes one aware of the drawn film as a sadly neglected branch of film-art. I say film-art deliberately, for the productions of many American draughtsmen are most certainly to be described as works of art in the fullest sense of the term. And these cartoons represent only the beginnings of a most promising D 49