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 #:
000406
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 9 LE FILM A GENEVE Les initiatives diverses qui ont pris naissance a Geneve, dans le domaine international ont confere a cette ville un caractere d'importance diplomatique dont ses habitants se sentent particulierement honores. La Societe des Nations et le Bureau Industriel du Travail sont venus elargir encore ce rare privilege et desormais on ne saurait que souhaiter de plus. Cette importance, toutefois, n'est pas applicable a la ville elle-meme qui demeure modestement peuplee de quelque 130,000 habitants et ne compte guere qu'une quinzaine de salles de cinemas. Trois ou quatre de ces salles sont spacieusement amenagees et se differencient de quelques autres qui restent dans une moyenne raisonnable bien que quelques unes sont en realite tres modestes, comme de vastes chambres, et se repartissent dans les divers quartiers de la ville ou elles constituent le rendez-vous d'un certain nombre d'habitues qui en apprecient avant tout la proximite. Les programmes ne sont en general ni bons ni mauvais, c'est a dire que Geneve pent voir, comme toute autre ville, la production courante, quelquefois meme avant Paris ou Berlin selon que le film est allemand ou francais. Les films sortent presque en totalite des studios d'Hollywood, encore qu'un certain nombre nous soit venu, I'an dernier, de I'Ufa et de 52